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Saturday & Sunday, July 26-27 , 2014

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Our new look County gets good news on Greetings from the new Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune.

We have undertaken a complete makeover from top to bottom in an effort to make our newspaper more appealing, easier to read, better organized and able to contain more stories and photographs.

This is part of our ongoing effort, since we acquired the newspaper in mid-June, to expand local coverage and give our readers more for their money.

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your trust and provide you the best community newspaper that we can.

Starting in early August, we will have a full-time sportswriter on board in time for football season. Look for greatly expanded coverage of local sports to go along with our expanded news coverage.

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retirement plan finances

By LOU ANTONELLI Managing Editor Titus Commissioners breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after getting some good news – for a change – regarding the county’s contribution towards its employees’ retirement plans.

The news came during a workshop held with Roxanne Bita, a Texas County and District

Retirement System Employer Service Representative.

County Judge Brian Lee says Bita’s trek to Titus County is an annual ritual, and for the past few years – ever since the Great Recession kicked in – she’s usually been the bearer of bad news.

“Because of the lackluster interest rates, the earnings have been less than expected,” Lee said.

Every year since the 2008-2009

fiscal year, Bita has told the county what it would receive and the county had to increase its contribution to the retirement plan.

When the recession started, seven percent of the county’s payroll budget went towards the retirement contribution. It has crept up to 11.7 percent this year, Lee said.

Even though the recession seems to be over, “I expected there would

still be a lag in investments,” Lee said.

He said commissioners were anticipating having to increase for retirement in the budget to 12 to 16 percent.

Instead, Bita reported the state retirement investments “had a real good year,” Lee said.

Instead of a considerable increase, he said the county will See Retirement, Pg. 2A

Reaching Back In Time Police break Courthouse up burglary restoration nearly done ring Friday

By GARY BORDERS Editor and publisher

By LOU ANTONELLI Managing Editor Some attentive patrol work led to a traffic stop early Friday morning that resulted in three men going to jail for what appears to be a series of burglaries When at 3:19 a.m. on Friday as Mount Pleasant Police Department officers responded to a residential burglary alarm in the 500 block of Redfearn Court, they observed a suspicious vehicle driving in the area.

A traffic stop was made on the vehicle just off Greenhill Rd on County Road 1612. When the vehicle stopped, the driver fled on foot, according to Chief Wayne Isbell.

Officers detained two passengers from the vehicle while a ground search commenced for the suspect who fled.

Officers found items the vehicle that had been reported stolen out of Bay City and Longview.

They also found several forms of ID, including driver’s licenses, Social Security cards, and other

government i s s u e d documents that did not belong to either man.

Some of the stolen items were traced to a vehicle burglary that had occurred Simmons at a residence on CR 1612 in Titus County.

During the investigation it was learned the driver threw a handgun from the moving vehicle before he fled on foot.

The handgun was later linked Haynes to a vehicle burglary in the 500 block of Greenhill Park.

Officers later located the stolen handgun after an extensive See Burglaries, Pg. 2A

First Glance

Sports

Annual Mayor’s Cup awarded See Page 5A

Local News School board meets Monday The Mount Pleasant ISD school board faces a fairly routine agenda when it meets at 5:30 p.m.

Monday at the administration building, 2230 N. Edwards Ave. A presentation to Joey Mayfield is scheduled as well as recognizing Regina Conroy’s retirement.

A spate of routine reports will be presented by the district’s administrators, by Superintendent Judd Marshall, assistant superintendent Mike Lide and others. A number of action items to be considered include purchase of laptop computers under Titus County shared services, and endorsement of directors for the Texas Association of School Boards.

Various resignations, retirements and other personnel items will be considered.

Commissioners meet Monday The next regular meeting of the Titus County Commissioners will be Monday

night at 6 p.m. at the county courthouse. There will updates from PTP Transportation and TxDOT on the Pass Through Projects and the Harts Bluff road widening project.

Commissioners will also consider and possibly approve a change to the platting of the Caddo Trace Subdivision.

Capital outlays include purchasing furniture for the Adult Probation Department’s new office in the remodeling courthouse annex, and spending $2625 for computer network hardware for adult probation remodel.

They will also consider and possibly approve setting fees for 2015 for civil services provided by the Sheriff and Constables.

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estoration of the 102year-old Franklin County Courthouse in Mt. Vernon is in the final stages, with the facility to be ready for inspection by architects and others by late August, and a grand re-opening slated for Sept. 20.

David Weston, project superintendent for MMI Historical Restoration Inc., the general contractor, said Thursday that the major work has been finished. What remains GARY BORDERS/Daily Tribune is largely cosmetic, although Project superintendent David Weston looks over the restored clock mechanism in the several doors still need to be cupola of the Franklin County Courthouse. rebuilt and the courtroom benches await refinishing and, in some cases, rebuilt.

The project is being financed with a $3 million grant from the Texas Historical Commission’s historic courthouses fund.

The firm, based in Weatherford, has been involved in the restoration of a number of courthouses in Texas — including those in Marshall, San Augustine, Linden and Jefferson.

The craftsmen involved work in the old glove factory behind the courthouse, which has been turned into the company’s shop.

A recently adopted stray feline named “Puddycat” has free rein of the cavernous building in which Wells Lamont gloves were once made, wandering among the table and band saws, and the stacks of old lumber, doors and windows — some salvaged from other restorations.

“We try to keep it as historically accurate as GARY BORDERS/Daily Tribune See Courthouse, Pg. 6A Restoration of the courthouse is expected to be finished late next month, with a grand opening slated for Sept. 20

Hart’s Bluff trustees meet

Harts Bluff ISD trustees met Thursday and began making plans to add eight to 10 classrooms to the middle school campus. Dr. Lyle DeBus, superintendent, said continued growth in the district is driving the expansion.

“We are out of room at our existing facility,” he said.

DeBus anticipates having the classrooms completed by the start of the 2015-16 school year.

The district is working on cost estimates now but plans to pay for the expansion out of existing funds.

See Trustees, Pg. 2A

Obituaries

• Joseph Wyatt (Joe) Allen • Frances Brooks • Rachelle Dawn Gilmore

See Obituaries page 3A © 2014 Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune

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The main courtroom is nearly finished, with primarily cosmetic work, such staining the millwork remaining.

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For the Record

FELONY ARRESTS •Amy Michele Clark, 48, of DeKalb was arrested for bond forfeiture on a third degree felony warrant for possession of a controlled substance penalty group one more than one gram but less than four grams, records stated, by the TCSO. Bond amount was unavailable.

•Joshua Adam Croley, 20, of Mount Pleasant was arrested on a third degree felony warrant for criminal mischief over $20,000 but less than $100,000, and a state jail felony warrant for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, records stated, by the MPPD. Bond amount was unavailable.

•David Lee White, 33, of Talco was arrested on a state jail felony warrant for criminal non payment of child support, records stated, by the DPS. Bond was set at $5,000.

COURTS • Precinct 1, 3, and 4 Justice of the Peace Kay McNutt: gave one magistrate’s warning collected two DSC court costs, two DSC certificates, one open container fine, one minor in possession of alcohol fine, one executed justice citation, one executed A/B misdemeanor warrant, eleven DPS fines, nine county fines, and one failure to appear fine; held one conference; issued one release of judgment, one violate promise to appear warrant, two show cause letters, four capias pro fine letters, four capias pro fine warrants, three notices of continuance, one class A/B warrant, two NRVCW notices, and one DPS warrant; filed three county citations and one class A/B complaint and affidavit.

• Constable Chris Durant: No report available.

• Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Paula Dyke: filed four state citations and one county citation; issued one probable cause determination for juvenile detention, one mental health order of protective custody and three payout agreements; collected one state fine, one juvenile related fine and 16 misdemeanor fines; gave seven magistrate’s warnings and juvenile magistrate warning, appointed two attorneys, held one civil hearing and performed one wedding.

• Precinct 2 Constable Cleve Johnson: served one warrant.

• Titus County Attorney Investigator Paul Lindsey: No report available.

• Municipal Court Judge Jerry Wesson Court: collected 26 fines and had five compliance dismissals.

• Mount Pleasant Fire Department: No report available.

Daily Blotter

The focus on calls to Titus County dispatch seemed to shift somewhat Thursday toward trouble on the roadways: • A caller said there was a man in a wheelchair rolling down Hwy. 67 near Cox Concrete.

• A motorist at CR 3007 at the Franklin County line (the call was transferred from Franklin County dispatch) said he was following a trailer with an unsecured load of hay bales.

• There was a two-car collision on FM 127 near the water treatment plant.

• An elderly subject was weaving all over the road along Hwy. 49.

But… There was still one livestock call. A black horse was reported loose along Hwy. 271 north of Talco.

Trustees

From Page 1A

The board accepted the resignation of trustee Steve Martin. The district plans to hire a relative as a teacher, so Martin is resigning to comply with nepotism laws. A subcommittee plans to meet next month to discuss how best to fill the vacancy.

The district will raise lunch prices next school year as required by the Texas Department of Agriculture.

Student lunches at both the elementary school and middle school will rise to $2.55. That is a 30-cent increase from previous elementary school prices and a dime increase for middle-school students.

Teachers will see their lunch prices rise 15 cents to $3.40.

The board hired the Mount Pleasant accounting firm of Arnold Walker & Arnold to conduct its annual audit for 2015-15. It also agreed to purchase textbooks and electronic materials for math and science classes.

State Briefs

Two sisters found dead

stages of decomposition, though none showed signs of trauma or foul play. Both are accused of treating the remains in “an offensive manner.”

Police separately presented each with warrants for their arrest on seven counts of abuse of a corpse, a class A misdemeanor offense.

They were released last week after posting bail.

QUITMAN (AP) - Two young sisters have been found dead in their East Texas apartment and an evidence tampering charge was filed against a man who allegedly was at the home.

Quitman police Chief Kelly Cole on Friday declined to release names of the girls, ages 1 and 3. Autopsies were ordered.

An unknown male on Thursday called police to report two children not breathing.

Cole didn’t provide details on the caller.

Witnesses told police they saw a man running from the apartment and throwing items into a trash bin.

Courtesy Photo Police arrested Thomas Wayne Liles of Quitman on a charge of tampering with or Pittsburg Chief Richard Penn is now assisting with pet adoptions at the Mount Pleasant fabricating physical evidence.

Animal Services Center. Chief Penn brought in an $80 donation to go toward pet Online jail records don’t list an attorney for Liles, who was held adoptions or medical care to support an animal.

Friday on $25,000 bond.

Cole declined to release further information on Liles.

Regents meet on search

A helping hand

Burglaries

From Page 1A

the path the suspect vehicle drove and returned the gun to its owner as well as the items taken from the vehicle burglary on CR 1612.

Although the suspect who ran was not located during the ground search, Isbell said, officers were able to identify him as Quwanah Simmons, 21, of Lone Star.

The passengers — Bobby Joe Haynes, 21, of Lone Star, and a 16-year old male juvenile from Lone Star — were arrested at the scene based on evidence found inside the vehicle.

Isbell said Mount Pleasant detectives were preoccupied all day Friday gaining intelligence on Simmons and tracking him down.

They located him at a residence on Alamo Street in Lone Star Friday afternoon. Simmons was arrested with the assistance of Lone Star PD and booked into the Morris County Jail for an arrest warrant out of Bowie County for failure to register as a sex offender. Additional charges related to Mount Pleasant and Titus County offenses are pending warrants being issued, Isbell said.

Haynes was booked into the Titus County Jail for theft of property $50 to $500 (class b misdemeanor), fraudulent possession of identifying information (state jail felony), unlawful use of criminal instruments (Class B misdemeanor), burglary of a vehicle (Class A misdemeanor), and theft of a firearm (state jail felony).

The 16-year-old juvenile was also charged with the same offenses as Haynes and transported to the Gregg County Juvenile Detention Center in Longview.

“The success of locating Simmons was made possible due to the efforts of both Mount Pleasant Police patrol officers and detectives with support and assistance from Titus County Sheriff ’s Office and Lone Star Police Department,” Isbell said.

“All played a vital role in locating Simmons who was considered armed and dangerous.”

Lou Annotelli is managing editor of the Daily Tribune. lou@dailytribune.net.

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Carjacked SUV hits crowd, killing three young siblings Lifetime drops PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Two “but we do need to find these two reality show men carjacked a woman at guys.” gunpoint but soon sped out of control, killing three children Friday as they plowed into a group selling fruit to raise money for their church, Philadelphia police said.

Two women, including the mother of the three siblings killed, were critically injured.

“Three innocent children had their lives taken,” Philadelphia Homicide Capt. John Clark said of the victims, ages 7, 10 and 15.

The victims were struck late Friday morning about a mile from where the carjacking occurred.

Police were looking for the suspects, who fled on foot.

“There are no words to describe how I feel right now,” said police commissioner Charles Ramsey,

Police said they may have blown a tire as they turned a corner at high speed. The car ended up in a wooded area, its front end smashed against a stand of trees.

“Something obviously went horribly wrong,” Clark said.

The victims included a 15-yearold girl and her younger brothers.

Their mother, 34, was in extremely critical condition, police said. Their identities were not immediately released.

A neighbor helping the family sell fruit was also struck. The 65-yearold woman was in stable condition, police said.

The carjack victim, a 45-year-old real estate agent who was forced into the backseat of her Toyota 4Runner, was also critically injured.

Witness Renee Charleston saw a car streaking through the intersection, then noticed children on the ground.

From Page 1A “Nobody was moving,” she told television station WPVI. only have to raise its contribution Employees at Education Works, one tenth of one percent, to 11.8 an educational nonprofit across percent.

“We were prepared to have to go the street from the wreck, told The over and beyond 12 percent; that’s Philadelphia Inquirer they ran to try to help the victims. One boy had real good news for us,” Lee said.

Lou Antonelli is managing editor no pulse and another’s was barely of the Daily Tribune. Email: lou@ there, said Karen Payne, who runs a summer camp there. dailytribune.net.

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FORT WORTH (AP) - The Lifetime TV network has dropped a reality show about a Texas mortuary after eight decaying bodies were found at the facility and the co-owners were arrested for alleged corpse abuse.

Lifetime announced in June it would produce a show called “Good Grief ” about the Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth.

The show was due to air July 23.

But the show “has not and will not air on Lifetime,” Lifetime Networks vice president Les Eisner said in a statement Friday, adding that the allegations are “deeply troubling.”

Johnson Family Mortuary coowners Dondre Johnson, 39, and his wife Rachel Hardy-Johnson, 35, were arrested last week after the building owner evicted the couple for not paying rent and discovered the decomposing bodies inside.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office has said seven of the eight bodies found July 15 at the business were in advanced

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Men left children in car HITCHCOCK (AP) - Two men have been arrested after police say they left two children inside a locked car for about 30 minutes outside a Texas gas station.

Police removed the two children from the car.

Police chief Clay Kennelly says the children were unharmed but taken to a hospital as a precaution.

Kennelly says he doesn’t know how old the children are. He says the relationship between the two men and children wasn’t immediately clear.

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AUSTIN (AP) - University of Texas System regents have set a Tuesday meeting to possibly name a finalist in their search for a new chancellor to oversee the 15-campus system.

Among the reported top candidates is Admiral William H. McRaven, who coordinated the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. McRaven is commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, headquartered in Florida.

Another reported candidate has been Richard Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

If the regents name a finalist, the candidate must wait 21 days before being officially confirmed for the job.

The chancellor oversees the system’s nine academic and six health campuses.

Current Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced in February he would step down to return full time to his job as a transplant surgeon.

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States’ use of execution drugs varies widely The Associated Press The prolonged execution of an Arizona death row inmate with a new, two-drug combo has highlighted the patchwork quilt approach that states now take with lethal drugs, with types, combinations and dosages varying widely. A question and answer look at how the disparity came about and why, following more than three decades in which all death penalty states used the exact same three-drug mixture.

Q: What are states currently using for lethal drugs?

A: Georgia, Texas and Missouri use single doses of compounded

pentobarbital, an anesthetic similar to the drug used to put pets to sleep. Arizona and Ohio use a combination of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller. Florida uses midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. Oklahoma has authorized five different lethal injection protocols: a threedrug method beginning with sodium thiopental, pentobarbital, or midazolam, a two-drug procedure using midazolam and hydromorphone, or a single, lethal dose of pentobarbital.

Q: All death penalty states used the same three-drug combo for lethal injection for more than

three decades. Why isn’t that done now?

A: Two reasons. First, supplies of the drugs started to run short as death penalty opponents in Europe put pressure on their drugmakers — which manufactured key anesthetics — to prohibit their use in executions. Secondly, states eager to avoid ongoing lawsuits alleging the old three-drug method caused inmates to suffer unconstitutional levels of pain looked for alternatives beginning about five years ago.

Q: Why don’t all states follow the lead of Georgia, Missouri and Texas and use compounded pentobarbital?

A: The compounded version is difficult to come by, with most compounding pharmacists reluctant to expose themselves to possible harassment by death penalty opponents. Adopting it also raises the specter of lawsuits over its constitutionality, based on arguments that its purity and potency could be questioned as a non-FDA regulated drug. So far, Georgia, Missouri and Texas won’t reveal their sources, while Ohio, whose protocol includes the option of compounded pentobarbital, hasn’t been able to obtain it.

Q: Why can’t states just find another drug as effective as pentobarbital?

A: Basically, options are running out. The leading candidate after pentobarbital was propofol, the painkiller known as the drug that caused pop singer Michael Jackson’s 2009 overdose death.

Missouri proposed using propofol but withdrew the idea over concerns the move would create a shortage of the popular anesthetic.

Meanwhile, manufacturers are also starting to put limits on drugs in the old three-drug combo still in use in states like Florida.

Q: With all this uncertainty, why don’t states return to the electric chair or other non-drug methods?

A: Most states retired their

electric chairs or used them sparingly with the advent of the three-drug method introduced in the 1970s. Tennessee recently enacted a law allowing its use if lethal drugs can’t be found, and other states are debating its reintroduction. But electric chairs come with their own constitutional problems, since they have produced a number of botched executions over the years, as did hanging decades ago. Many death penalty experts, even some opponents, believe the quickest and most humane method is the firing squad. But it’s unclear whether there’s a public appetite for moving to that method.

Former CIA officials can’t see ‘torture’ report

By KEN DILANIAN AP Intelligence Writer ASPEN, Colo. - About a dozen former CIA officials named in a classified Senate report on decadeold agency interrogation practices were notified in recent days that they would be able to review parts of the document in a secure room in suburban Washington after signing a secrecy agreement.

Then, on Friday, many were told they would not be able to see it, after all.

Some of them were furious, while Democratic Senate aides were angry that they were given the chance in the first place.

It’s the latest chapter in the drama and recriminations that have been playing out behind the scenes in connection with what some call the Senate torture report, a summary

Obituaries

Allen

LAKE JACKSON - Joseph Wyatt (Joe) Allen of Lake Jackson, 82, died on Thursday, July 24, 2014 after a long illness.

A Celebration of Life Service will be at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the First Christian Church of Lake Jackson.

He was born on Feb. 29, 1932, in Hooks to the late Nelia D. and Marshall Allen.

After graduating Hooks High School, Joe received a track scholarship at East Texas State Teacher’s College, where he received his bachelor’s degree. It is here that he met and married Dorace Raney Allen.

He went on to serve in the

of which is being declassified and is expected to be released in the coming weeks.

“I am outraged,” said John Rizzo, one of the former officials who was offered, and then refused, a chance to see the summary report before publication. He retired in 2009 as the CIA’s top lawyer after playing a key role in the interrogation program.

“They are accusing people of misleading Congress, of misleading the Justice Department, and they never even asked to talk to us,” he said. “And now they won’t let us read the report before it is made public.”

The 6,300-page report, along with a CIA rebuttal, represents the most detailed accounting to date of a set of bitterly controversial interrogation, rendition and detention practices the CIA

carried out in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks — practices many Americans now consider to have been immoral or illegal.

President Barack Obama stopped the practices when he took office, but he decided against a “truth commission” to examine what happened. Criminal investigations conducted in secret resulted on no charges.

Advocacy groups say the Senate report’s 600-page executive summary, which is to be released along with a CIA response and a minority dissent, will be the last chance for public accountability.

For months, the former officials who are implicated in the report have strategized about how to rebut it. Many of them sincerely believe that they did what the country asked of them after Sept. 11 and that they are being impugned now

Air Force from 1953-1955, and served as captain in the Air Force Reserves until 1968. After completing a master’s degree, Joe taught Chemistry and coached football. Later, he worked at Dow Chemical Company in the research department and retired as a Technical Specialist in 1991.

Joe was a Scoutmaster and a very active member of First Christian Church where he served as Deacon and Sunday school teacher. He loved being with family and friends and enjoyed traveling, sports (particularly golf ) and hunting and was a gun enthusiast.

In his retirement years, long rifles became a central focus, spending time building and refurbishing them. He even served as president of the Greenwood Black Powder Long Rifle Club. Joe was a servant of heart and generous with his time and money.

He is survived by his wife, Dorace, and four children, Myra Robison and husband Mike of Tyler, Jay Allen of Lake Jackson, Betty Sterling and husband Dr. Jim of College Station and Nancy Allen of Dallas, also, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren and brothers Troy Allen (wife Jane) of Houston and David Allen (wife Jean) of Irving,

three nephews and four nieces.

Visitation will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to First Christian Church of Lake Jackson or to the charity of your choice.

Brooks

PITTSBURG – Frances Brooks, 76, of Pittsburg, died Friday, July 25, 2014 in Longview. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, July 27, 2014 at the Gilmer Church of Christ in Gilmer with Mark Engel officiating. Interment will follow at Avery Cemetery under the direction of Erman Smith Funeral Home in Pittsburg.

Family will receive friends between 2 – 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at the funeral home.

because the political winds have shifted.

About a dozen officials were called in recent days and told they could read the executive summary at a secure room at the Office of Director of National Intelligence, as long as they agreed not to discuss it, four former officials said.

Then, on Friday, CIA officials called them and told them that due to a miscommunication, only former CIA directors and deputy directors would be given that privilege. Former directors Michael Hayden, Porter Goss and George Tenet have been invited to read it, as have former acting directors John McLaughlin and Michael Morell.

Senate aides familiar with the matter say Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, protested to the White House that it had no business allowing retired officials to read a Senate oversight report.

Representatives for Feinstein, the CIA and the White House had no comment.

Several people who have read the full report, and who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss still-classified material, say it shows that the CIA interrogation program was far more brutal than previously understood, and that CIA officials repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department about what was being done to al-Qaida detainees.

The report asserts that no unique, life-saving intelligence was gleaned for the harsh techniques.

It’s long been known that the CIA used slapping, stress positions,

sleep deprivation and other harsh tactics on several detainees and a near-drowning technique known as water boarding on three of them.

The CIA’s use of water boarding has drawn particular scrutiny since it is considered the harshest technique on the list of those used, but the report asserts that the other tactics, as applied, were extremely harsh and brutal.

Torture is illegal under U.S. law.

CIA officials dispute that water boarding amounted to torture.

CIA interrogators were acting under since-repudiated Justice Department legal opinions saying that the techniques were not torture.

Obama decided that anyone who followed legal guidance would not be prosecuted.

The report asserts, however, that the Justice Department’s narrow, meticulous rules for how the harsh techniques were supposed to be applied were not always followed, those who have read the full report said. The CIA inspector general reached that conclusion years ago.

CIA officials who read the Senate report said it was filled with errors, that it cherry-picked evidence, and that it reached deeply flawed conclusions, say former agency officials who would not be quoted because the report is classified.

Proponents call that spin from people trying to protect their reputations.

Among the critics’ biggest complaints is that the report relied heavily on millions of CIA documents, and that Senate investigators did not interview any of the participants. Senate officials

have said the pending criminal investigation made interviews impossible.

Most of the Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against the report, saying they didn’t support its conclusions.

The dispute has poisoned relations between the Democrats who run the Intelligence Committee and the CIA. The climate worsened when Feinstein took to the Senate floor in March to accuse the CIA of improperly accessing Senate computer systems in pursuit of documents the CIA claimed the Senate was not entitled to have.

CIA Director John Brennan referred the matter to the Justice Department. The department recently announced it has declined to take the case, a development that did little to cool the bitterness on both sides.

Reporters who happened to be at the ODNI building in McLean, Virginia, on Tuesday saw Morell walking in. He told them he was going to read “something I don’t want to read,” but he didn’t elaborate.

A senior intelligence official later said he read the Senate report.

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Calendar Benefit for Kyle Banks A fish fry benefit for Kyle Banks who was recently diagnosed with stage four mouth cancer will begin at 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, 2014 at the Argo Baptist Church. He has lost his tongue and part of his mouth during the past month and a half and needs help with medical costs and frequent trips to Dallas for doctors’ visits. Family asks everyone come out to show support for Kyle’s cause so that he may continue to fight this disease. There will be an auction of guns, quilts, cakes and pies plus many other items as well at 7:30 p.m. that evening.

Thank you to everyone who made this possible. Please come and help Kyle. For more information call 903-572-5763 or 903-204-8594.

to support these hard-working children please call 903-246-5313, information please contact Virginia Fleming at 903 897 2037 or by 903-285-8770, or 214-681-1931. e-mail granvaf@aol.com

MPHS class of 1984 reunion The Mount Pleasant High School graduating class of 1984 announces their 30th reunion to be held on October 18, 2014 at the Mount Pleasant Country Club beginning at 7 p.m. and going until.

Class Alumni and a guest are invited and the cost is $30.00 per person.

Reservations are required and must be made no later than August 15, 2014. Reservation payment can be sent to Kim Shumate at MPHS class of 1984 c/o Kim Shumate P.O. Box 583 Mount Pleasant, Texas 75456. Cash bar is available at your own discretion; Semi – formal.

Help MP Flight go to State More information can be found at the MPHS (Texas) class of 1984 Mount Pleasant track club MP Flight (sanctioned by the Mount group link on Facebook at Andy Watkins. In addition we will try to Pleasant Parks and Recreation Department) has advanced to the have a tailgate at the south end of the stadium around 6 p.m. Bring state competition as a member of the Texas Amateur Athletic your own food.

Federation (TAAF). They are in need of funds to help make the trip to the state competition in College Station beginning Thursday, July Naples Watermelon Festival 31, 2014. Any donations will be highly appreciated and your support The 76th annual Naples Watermelon Festival will be held on July 25 is necessary to help these kids make their dreams of competing – 26, 2014. There will be a dance, arts and crafts, food, arm wrestling, come true. The Flight Track Club mission is to develop youth with an antique car show, corn hole toss, horse shoes, and more! The Naples strong bodies, minds and solid moral character. If you would like Rodeo will also be in town running July 24, 25, and 26. For more

Vasquez Transplant Fundraiser Rebecca Vasquez of Winfield is in need of support from family, friends, and the community, to aide in funding her life saving surgery.

She has been diagnosed with Fibrosing Media Stinitis a condition that makes it almost impossible for her to breath, and requires a double lung transplant via a clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The surgery is very expensive and the family is asking for help in obtaining funds to cover some of the travel expenses and to purchase necessary medicines insurance won’t provide. PLEASE come show support and help make this life saving procedure possible for Rebecca on Saturday, July 26, 2014. From 5 – 8 p.m. at 108 Main Street in Winfield there will be a fundraiser event with food, fun and live music provided by Circle C Cowboy Church and other partnering ministries. The family needs every dollar anyone can give to help keep Rebecca alive. If you would like to assist with the event contact Mark Vasquez at 903-305-4844, or donations are being accepted at Northeast Texas Credit Union under the Vasquez family name. The family would like to thank all those who have supported this event and who continue to do so.

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bout three times a week, some of the folks in the drive-thru at the McDonald’s

on the north side during the morning rush engage in a pleasant ritual.

It starts when one driver offers to pay for the order of the person in the vehicle behind. Then that person does the same for the driver behind him or her. Last Thursday, the “pay it forward” continued for 10 vehicles.

What a pleasant gesture. In a world where bad news seems to dominate, it is nice to see such selfless acts, done with no expectation of recognition or reward. Thanks to all those who participate. |———| Congratulations to North East Texas Credit Union, which officially opened its new northside facility last week. The financial institution, which has branches across the region, for the first time now has two branches in the same town.

Longtime banker Steve Russell has returned to working here to serve as branch manager.

Russell has long been active in civic affairs and heads up the Titus County Fair committee.

The new branch, behind Sonic off North Jefferson, adds to the growing and vibrant financial community here. |———| We can be grateful that at least part of the traffic congestion on South Jefferson will ease next week. The barrels slowing traffic and impeding access in front of Walmart will be taken away, according to the contractor, as traffic is shifted to the east side of the roadway so that completion of the intersection with FM 1000 can be accomplished.

The barrels, and motorists illegally cutting through them to turn into Walmart, have been a headache for local police trying to prevent accidents. We’re glad they are going away. |———| Finally, we thank Pittsburg Mayor Shawn Kennington for his $500 personal donation to the local animal shelter. The Mount Pleasant shelter accepts animals brought in by that city’s lone animal control officer.

In addition, city council members are donating their modest monthly stipends to the shelter, which totals another $560 a month. And the city attorney plans to make a personal donation as well.

We appreciate their generosity and support for our shelter.

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Just wanted to say, I have enjoyed this paper so much since the new editor took over I am so glad to see you are printing local news. To tell the truth, I was thinking of dropping the paper because all they put in the paper was on television, 24/7.Thanks so much for printing a decent paper.

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Journey through past at courthouse

D

avid Weston walked up as I wandered unaccompanied through the Franklin County Courthouse in Mt. Vernon last week, taking photographs of the final stages of the restoration of the 1912 building. Once I explained why I was taking photos, for a story in the Trib, he enthusiastically conducted a top-to-bottom tour of this grand old building. Weston, 57, is the superintendent on the project, a man clearly in love with his work.

“People ask when I’m going to retire. When I die, that’s when,” he said. Weston is from Long Island, N.Y. and sports two gold earrings in each lobe and a scraggly beard. We hit it off well because as a semi-retired amateur furniture builder, I appreciate the painstaking craftsmanship Gary Borders he and his workers are putting into this project. Weston showed me a stack of black walnut lumber that he milled from a tree in Marion County, now drying on racks and ready to be planed.

I told him about my cache of walnut bought over the years out of barns around East Texas. I keep hauling that lumber around, thinking someday I will again have time and space to build furniture. That was an instant bond, two fellow lovers of black walnut.

Weston is a collector. He pulled out the first issue of Fine Woodworking from 1976. That’s one of the premier woodworking magazines, one to which I subscribed to for a decade or so. Like him, I have

dozens of woodworking magazines squirreled away in my small shop. Against one wall in his eclectic office in the old Wells Lamont glove factory behind the courthouse, several vintage remote-powered model planes sit in boxes. He pulls out copies of a blueprint of the intricacies of using a framing square, with complicated formulas that are way above my math skills.

He collects old framing squares as well and plans to use some of the walnut to encase them for hanging on the wall.

As can be seen by the photos in this issue, the Franklin County courthouse restoration is just magnificent. MMI specializes in historical restorations and has brought a number of Texas courthouses back to their original splendor. One of my favorites is the Harrison County courthouse in Marshall, which MMI also restored about five years ago. When one walks into these buildings, one feels transported back to a simpler time, what Weston calls the “gilded age” of craftsmanship. I picture Atticus Finch from “To Kill a Mockingbird” delivering his impassioned defense in such a courtroom as Franklin County’s.

MMI’s job is to stay as true to the original design as possible, which is why they mill their own parts for all the woodwork that had to be replaced in the building.

0eston, who has been on this job about a year, shows up about 6 a.m. and leaves about dark, around 8 or so. By now he knows every inch of this threestory building, from the segregated bathrooms outside the basement that black people had to use before the civil rights movement, to the room with chicken wire encased in the glass windows, which served as a

vault. The vault door is now being restored as well.

We climb up a narrow ladder through an opening in a ceiling on the third floor to take a look at the metal ball that is struck to chime when the clock strikes the hour. Or at least it will when everything is finished, and the clocks are synchronized. The bell is still housed in the original hand-hewed lumber.

Weston leads me up another set of very narrow ladder steps to the top of the cupola, where he proudly shows off the mechanical clock mechanism, now also restored. Somebody is going to have to climb up here once a week and turn the metal crank to wind the clock. Maybe the county commissioners can take turns, but it is going to take someone pretty agile — and skinny.

It is rare these days to meet people who take such pride in their work, whatever it is. For Weston, restoration is truly a labor of love, and he and his crew pay attention to every detail. His approach is simple. “If there is a mistake, I take the blame. If it is done right, we all share the credit.”

That’s the servant approach to management, and it truly works when you have people who care about what they do — no matter the job. It certainly helps to love your work, something else we had in common.

As he said, just before we parted ways, “Anyone who tells you they’re bored… They’re boring people.”

Amen, David. Thanks to him and the folks with whom he works, the good people of Mount Vernon are going to have a courthouse for the ages.

Gary Borders is editor and publisher of the Daily Tribune. Email: gborders@dailytribune.net.

Christians should lead in this crisis

T

he crisis on our southern border is complicated. Except when it’s not.

Surely you know the story: Since last fall, 52,000 unaccompanied Latin American children have flooded the U.S. border with Mexico, most of them along the lower Rio Grande.

They have flowed out of Honduras (15,000), Guatemala (12,500), Mexico (12,000) and El Salvador (11,500). Most are teenagers, but many are younger than 10 years old. They’re fleeing gang violence, abysmal education systems, staggering unemployment, crushing poverty and sexual abuse.

Imagine you’re a parent of any of those children. How awful must their lives be for you to send them on such a long and dangerous Marv Knox journey? How pathetic must their lives be for you to turn them and all your savings over to a coyote—a smuggler of human beings?

Maybe you can answer. I can’t even begin to comprehend.

Unspeakable conditions turned on the tap of this stream of children. They’re swamping our nation’s ability to receive them. The vast majority aren’t sneaking into the country. They voluntarily surrender after they cross the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection detains them up to 72 hours. Then, Health and Human Services houses them in shelters while it attempts to reunite them with relatives in the United States, places them in foster care or begins deportation proceedings. Officials cannot process them as rapidly as they arrive, so their numbers are escalating.

Since American politics has degenerated to perpetual finger-pointing and name-calling, our government is illequipped to respond. Americans know that. A new poll shows 58 percent disapprove of how President Obama is

managing the crisis. The same survey reveals 66 percent disapprove of how Republican lawmakers are responding.

So, yes, this humanitarian crisis is complicated.

It involves international relations, public policy, organized crime, federal and state budgets, election-year politics, economics, the judicial system and race relations.

Any one of those factors would be sufficient to snarl a solution. Altogether, they comprise a catastrophic mess.

It’s so catastrophic, we tend to overlook a single simplifying factor: We’re talking about children.

Why can’t we start by agreeing nothing like this ever should happen to children? Then, why can’t we work out from there? Treat them with love and respect and nurture, as if they were our very own. Secure their safety, both now and going forward.

Christians should be leading the way You’d think Christians would be leading the way. After all, God created these children in God’s own image. Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matthew 19:14). Jesus told us we will be judged by how we treat “the least of these,” and nobody in this hemisphere is more vulnerable than these children.

But we’re hearing Christians, even a preacher who should know better, express more concern for the sanctity of our borders than the safety of children.

The problem is our society—Christians included— has made an idol of our nation. We think more highly of what happens within our borders than we do of what happens to people created in God’s image. We worry more about the economy than the ebola virus ravaging western Africa. We care more about the price of gas than the value of a Middle Eastern human life. We fret more about the next election than we do about the fate of women in India.

We have taken something good—patriotic love for and appreciation of a blessed nation. We have perverted it to think our comfort and exceptionally high standard

of living are of more concern to God than the grave travesty and injustice suffered by the world’s most vulnerable.

Of course, the situation on our southern border can’t continue like this. So what do we do?

First, we care for the children. The government will follow due process—following laws implemented by both parties. But that process could take years. Warehousing those children that long is deplorable. What if America’s Christian churches volunteered to provide foster care in the meantime? How would the future of Central America change if its children were exposed to redemptive gospel in loving homes?

Second, we stop the flow. This means helping improve conditions for children and their families in Central America. We’re lousy at nation-building, and we can’t take over their countries. But we can help those governments restore order. We can support their efforts to make their neighborhoods and communities safe.

Similarly, we block the pipeline that fuels the violence.

We must cut off the flow of money from illegal drugs and illegal arms. If the Central American cartels went bankrupt, the lives of people there would improve. And if the United States put anywhere near the emphasis on stopping that illicit trade as many in Congress want to put into closing the borders, the people fleeing violence wouldn’t have reason to leave.

Fourth, we spread the word. Central American parents must know the danger facing their children on a trip north. They also must know the end result is not a panacea. They must know their children are far better off staying home in the first place. And that must be true.

Fifth, we reform immigration. Our system doesn’t work—for immigrants, for their families, for states and communities on the border, for U.S. employers.

Not only can we afford to fix the problem; we can’t afford not to fix it.

Marv Knox is editor and publisher of the Texas Baptist Standard.

UT chancellor wisely backs down

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hich is more challenging: performing a liver transplant on a small child? Or navigating the political rapids of public higher education during the reign of Gov. Rick Perry?

Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, who will leave his job as chancellor of the University of Texas System when his successor is chosen, would probably say his current job is the toughest – which is why he’s going back to doing transplants on little kids. At least it’s easier to know when you succeed.

The strain of the UT job, which Cigarroa has held since 2009, Dave McNeely showed up on the July 4th weekend, when he demanded that UT Austin President Bill Powers resign effective October, or chance being fired at an upcoming meeting of UT’s board of regents.

Powers refused Cigarroa’s ultimatum, and counteroffered to resign effective June 2, 2015. That, he said, would be less precipitous, allow him to be on the job through the upcoming regular session of the Texas Legislature during the first five months of next year, and try to complete a fundraising goal of $3 billion.

Most of the university community sided with Powers – including students, faculty, alumni, and just about everyone else.

The Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education is a high-powered bunch of UT alumni and donors that formed in 2011 in the wake of apparent efforts of Regent Walter Hall to get Powers fired. On July 7, it

pleaded for Cigarroa to accept Powers’ offer to quit next year.

Calling itself “profoundly disturbed” by Cigarroa’s “surprise ultimatum delivered by the Chancellor then leaked to a political activist supportive of Regent Wallace L. Hall Jr. and Governor Rick Perry, is deeply troubling and has no place in the governance of one of our state’s most important institutions.”

It praised Powers on several fronts, including achieving “record-breaking philanthropic giving“ and recruitment of “world-class faculty.”

“As evidenced by his offer of a graceful departure at the end of the legislative session and academic year, President Powers has consistently acted in the best interests of The University while others seem more interested in fostering dissent and destruction,” the group’s statement said.

“UT Austin is a Texas treasure invested in and owned

by the people of Texas,” the statement concluded.

“Fortunately for just about everyone, including Cigarroa, he wisely swallowed his pride and accepted the gradual phase-out Powers proposed. The power group praised the Kumbaya outcome.

“We are grateful that our leaders were able to come together and put the interests of our great university first by allowing a thoughtful, responsible and orderly transition of leadership.”

Meanwhile, the investigation continues by a special House select committee on agency transparency, appointed by Speaker Joe Straus to see whether regent Hall’s demands for a huge number of UT e-mail communications was a Get-Powers witch hunt that warranted his impeachment.

Dave McNeely is a veteran political columnist. Email: dmcneely111@gmail.com

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Credit union opens its second branch in town

Russell serving as manager on north side

By ANNETTE WHITE Staff Writer North East Texas Credit Union celebrated the grand opening of its north-end location Thursday.

The branch is the second location offered in Mount Pleasant, adding increased customer service and banking options for members of the Mount Pleasant community.

The member-owned credit union, which has been servicing the area since 1948, began as Lone Star Steel Federal Credit Union, offering banking services to employees and families of the steel plant before opening up their doors to members of the community.

The credit union’s main branch remains in Lone Star, but has banking centers in Daingerfield, Hughes Springs, Jefferson, Diana and Mount Pleasant, with an ATM location in Omaha. The opening of a second location in the same community is a first for the institution.

“We felt the need for expansion in this area,” Tracie Smith, marketing director for North East Texas Credit Union, said. “The South Jefferson location was an extremely busy office, with limited parking and no physical space for our growing customer base.”

Smith said the expansion was necessary in order to serve the community with a more convenient location for their current and future customers.

“We wanted to try to alleviate the traffic in our south-end

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Steve Russell, branch manager, is excited to serve an expanding customer base in Mount Pleasant.

location,” Smith said. “We have been fortunate to continue to grow even during a challenging economy. Our goal right now is to see the Mount Pleasant community continue to grow to support the two offices.”

Smith also said she is proud that the bank has been designated with the Juntos Avanzamos flag. Juntos Avanzamos, which translates to ‘together we advance’, is a designation given to credit unions

their new location.

“I thought it was a great opportunity to come back and be a part of Mount Pleasant,” Russell said. “I look forward to seeing a bunch of old friends and making new ones.”

Russell, who has been in banking for 32 years, said his goals are increasing the credit union’s membership base in the area and serving the members with a location that provides convenience

who have multiple bilingual speakers on staff who are ready to do business with the Hispanic community.

“We are here to serve them if they need us,” Smith said. “We have a Hispanic service teller and a Hispanic loan officer at this location at any given time.”

Steve Russell, branch manager of the new location, said he was approached by the credit union some time ago to come and manage

Officer and again in 1998 to Assistant Vice President.

Sondra graduated from Mount Vernon High School and continued her education at Northeast Texas Community College where she earned her Associates Degree.

Throughout her tenure at the bank she has attended various bank related courses and seminars.

Established in 1913, Guaranty Bank & Trust is one of the oldest and most respected banks in Texas.

It has built its reputation based on financial stability and community

and competitive products.

“We’ve got great customer service, and all the latest electronic banking options,” Russell said. “We have an excellent, experienced staff that’s eager to serve.”

Pam Cameron, head teller for the new location, said she was happy to be in Mount Pleasant.

“I’m excited to serve our existing and our new customers,” Cameron said.

North East Texas Credit Union

is a not-for-profit, memberowned banking facility. Profits are returned to the members through lower loan rates and higher interest rates. Any account holder is eligible for membership.

The north-end location is located at 105 W. 18th St. For more information contact 903-5723201.

Annette White is a staff writer of the Daily Tribune.

Email: awhite@dailytribune.net.

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Cunningham promoted at Guaranty Bank

Guaranty Bank & Trust announced the promotion of Sondra Cunningham to Vice President and Corporate Secretary following its June board meeting.

Kirk Lee, President, said, “Sondra exemplifies the work ethic, character, and leadership that we look for to help us provide the highest quality service to our customers.”

Cunningham started with Guaranty in 1984 as an Administrative Assistant. She was promoted in 1988 to Administrative

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The staff of the north-end location are ready to serve. Pictured from left to right (back row): Steve Russell, Tracy Smith, Carmen Derrick. Pictured from left to right (front row): Pam Cameron, Aida Zuniga, Mayra Munoz.

Sondra Cunningham leadership. Guaranty Bank & Trust has over $1.2 billion in total assets and 20 locations in eleven counties throughout Texas.

Additional information can be obtained at gnty.com.

SBDC plans capital finding seminar The Northeast Texas Small Business Development Center and Mineola Community Bank present “Finding the Capital” on Wednesday, July 30, at the Winnsboro Depot Building, 100 E Broadway in Winnsboro.

Many entrepreneurs need money to start or expand a business. Some look to family and friends for help, while others seek investor or bank financing. A common mistake

is to acquire the wrong type of financing, often resulting in cast flow problems or even bankruptcy.

This workshop is created especially to help entrepreneurs evaluate the various loan options available and select the best loan for their business.

Duncan McAdoo with Mineola Community Bank will explain the various types of conventional bank loans to assist entrepreneurs

in finding the best loan for their business.

Beverly Austin, SBDC Business Advisor, will address SBA loans and certification for Women-Owned businesses to help entrepreneurs take advantage of all the options available for government guaranteed financing.

The seminar will run from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. It is rree to the public.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - More families with higher incomes could claim the popular child tax credit under a bill that won approval Friday in the House. But in a dispute that divides Republicans and Democrats, millions of the poorest low-income families would still lose the credit in 2018, when enhancements championed

by President Barack Obama are set to expire.

The bill would gradually boost the amount of the $1,000-per-child tax credit by tying it to inflation, so it would go up as consumer prices rise. It also aims to make a dent in illegal immigration by prohibiting people without Social Security numbers from claiming a portion of the credit reserved for lowincome families.

With nearly all Republicans voting in favor and most Democrats opposed, the bill cleared the House by a vote of 237-173. The White House threatened to veto the bill, though the Democratic-controlled Senate is unlikely to pass it.

About 37 million taxpayers claimed the credit in 2012, reducing their tax bills by nearly $57 billion.

House Republicans say the bill would strengthen the tax credit by increasing it as inflation rises, and by making it available to even more middle-income families.

“It is time we make some simple

improvements to the child tax credit, so it keeps up with the cost of raising children,” said Rep. Dave Camp R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

The White House said the bill favors high-income taxpayers over the poor, while adding $90 billion

to the budget deficit over the next decade.

Five million of the poorest lowincome families would lose the credit in 2018, the White House said. An additional 6 million low-income families would see the amount of their tax credits reduced.

NEW YORK - Investors got some bad news about the American shopper on Friday, driving down stocks and sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a loss for the week.

Two major U.S. companies - the retail giant Amazon and the credit card processor Visa - both said that the second half of the year was looking more troubled than originally expected. The cautious outlook from two companies so heavily exposed to consumer spending spooked investors, causing the stock market to fall at the open and remain lower throughout the day.

“Visa put a lot of caution into the market this morning,” said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial.

The Dow dropped 123.23 points, or 0.7 percent, to 16,960.57. It’s the first time the Dow has closed below the psychologically notable 17,000point mark since July 9.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 9.64 points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,978.34 and the Nasdaq composite fell 22.54 points, or 0.5 percent, to 4,449.56.

With Friday’s selling, the Dow fell 0.8 percent this week. The S&P 500 closed basically unchanged and the Nasdaq rose 0.4 percent this week.

Visa was the biggest decliner among the blue chips, falling $7.97, or 3.6 percent, to $214.77. The credit card processor reported an

11 percent rise in quarterly profit but cut its full-year forecast on concerns about growth overseas.

Because the Dow is a priceweighted index, and Visa is the most expensive stock in the Dow, Visa was having an outsized impact on it. Roughly 60 points of the Dow’s decline can be attributed to Visa.

Investors have closely watched Visa ever since the company went public in 2008. Credit cards that use Visa’s payment system are in nearly person’s pocket, and each time a consumer buys a product with a Visa card the company takes a small percentage.

To see Visa give a cautious outlook is worrisome, Krosby said.

“Visa represents the consumer and the consumer is one of the most important pieces for the future of this economic recovery,” she said.

Amazon’s quarterly results didn’t help boost investor sentiment either.

Amazon’s stock slumped 10 percent after the online retail giant late Thursday posted a much wider loss than analysts had forecast, hit by expenses. The Seattle-based company is focused on spending the money it makes to expand into new areas and products, including a smartphone, the Fire, which starts selling Friday.

Amazon fell $36.60 to close at $324.01, the biggest decliner in the S&P 500 index.

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possible,” Weston said. The firm uses vintage lumber, for example, taken out of early 20th-century houses the company bought and disassembled, to repair the floors in the courthouse and to create some of the millwork — or repair existing parts of doors, railings and other furniture. All the furniture and millwork were built on site — nothing is store bought, he said.

On Thursday, a few workers

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were present, staining the window frames and touching up paint.

Weston said a conservator chose the colors to reflect paint colors used when the courthouse was built. The courtroom is painted in Odessa Pink, a peach-like tint, while the ceilings — where most of the stamped tiles are still original though some had to be repaired — is decked in Kind Green, a pale hue.

While many of MMI’s workers and subcontractors have already left since the courthouse restoration is in the final stages, they are brought back when needed for their particular areas of expertise from across the state and elsewhere. On Thursday, for example, the father-and-son team of Kenneth and Matt Rich of Waxahachie were busy installing door hardware, using hand chisels

to painstakingly hollow out a recess in a door for a strike plate.

“We have talent on the job,” Weston said, and the craftsmen are capable of tackling the most intricate of tasks, such as routing the approximately mile’s worth of sprinkler pipe hidden inside the courthouse walls and ceiling.

Often, after a subcontractor has installed something, such as a sprinkler system central unit, if

Weston isn’t pleased with its exact location he will move it.

The company is owned by father-and-son Tom and Chad Woody, and the latter was on the site last week as well. The company has been on this project for a year, taking over from a previous contractor.

Weston, while clearly pleased with how the restoration is going, is modest about the achievements

being made. He points out the original construction of the courthouse, which was completed in 1912, was all by hand, from the moldings and other woodwork, to the cupola that holds the clocks and the now-restored 1913 mechanism that keeps them running — as long as it is wound once a week.

“Now those were real craftsmen,” he said.

When the restoration is complete, the courthouse’s two clocks will once again be operational.w

An MMI worker puts together a piece of furniture inside the old glove factor behind the courthouse in Mt. Vernon.

The company uses the building to mill all the moldings and build furniture and other parts needed in the restoration.

The original clock bell is still house in the cupola, encased in the original lumber.

MMI co-owner Chad Woody talks with project superintendent David Weston inside the courthouse.

Photos by Gary Borders At left, Kenneth and Matt Rich work installing door hardware on newly constructed doors in the courthouse.

Weston reaches out to pet “Puddcat,” a stray who has become the shop cat.

The courthouse benches are still in the old glove factory, awaiting the completion of the restoration.

The renovation is being funded by a grant from the Texas Historical Commission.

A newly constructed witness box sits on the courtroom floor. The company does all its millwork to recreate the pieces, or to repair existing pieces.

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Mayors Cup Golf Tournament benefits Habitat Nearly $8,000 raised

By BRANDI PHILLIPS Tribune Staff Writer Mount Pleasant Habitat for Humanity held its 23rd Annual Mayor’s Cup Golf Tournament last weekend. Sixteen teams participated ”I would like to thank everybody who played in the 23rd Annual Mayor’s Cup for Habitat for Humanity. I would also like to thank everybody who donated to a good cause. Also the fine folks at Habitat for Humanity. Thanks!”

Jimmy Harbour, the tournament organizer said on Wednesday at the donation presentation.

Habitat received almost $8,000 as result of this year’s tournament.

The team results were as follows (Standings, Scores, Teams and Team Players): 1st Place: 55: Sisk Motors - Keith Sisk, Brady Sisk, Pat Sisk, Ted Peterson, Tommy Shumate.

2nd Place: 56: Top Hat - Aaron Harbour, Jody Orren, Kevin McDaniel, Brock Parker, Dustin Freeman.

3rd Place: 57: Priefert - Eddie Priefert, Wade Clark, David Smith, Chris Ship, Michael Roberts.

4th. Place: 59: Scrubbies - Zach Sewell, Lee McCollum, Joe Harwell, Ruston Goolsbee, Alan Griffis.

5th. Place: (T) 60: American National Bank - Terry Waycasey, Gregg Holt, Ben Taylor, Pat Taylor, Ernie McAnally.

5th. Place: (T) 60: American Pacific Industries, Inc. - Jimmy Harbour, David Harbour, Rusty

Jone,s Ken Blalock, Lance Grigsby.

6th Place: (T) 61: Luminant #1 - Larry Craig, C.W. Fry, Richard Haynie, David McCaig, Floyd Moss.

6th Place: (T) 61: First Federal Comm. Bank - Ashley Amerson, Howard Corriston, Garry Davis, John Biard, Tim Taylor.

6th Place: (T) 61: Cypress Bank - Josh Catu, Kasey Johnston, Tim Cole, Mark McCoy, Jonathan Biddy 7th Place: (T) 63: Luminant #2. - Randy Lange, Billy Cannon, Ben Hutchings. Bill Turner, Jacob Trotter.

7th Place: (T) 63: Load Trail Shawn Coyier, Coray Thiessen, Ray Coyier, John Fehr, Leonard Thiessen.

7th Place: (T) 63: M.P.C.C. - Chris Grant, Byron Hannah, Sam Burrows, Kirk Higbee John Rowland.

7th Place: (T) 63: Guaranty Bond Bank - Kirk Lee, Trent Abbott, Melissa Merchant, Casey Cross, Randall McMinn.

7th Place: (T) 63: Redfearn Real Estate - Patrick Redfearn, Joe Redfearn, Tucker Nelson, Greg Brown, Conner Nelson.

8th Place: 65: Big Tex Trailer Mfg. Inc. - C. R. Dortch, Dennis Webster, Kerry Fox, Johnathon Bradley, Dan Presley TRIBUNE Photo by Brandi Phillips 9th Place: 66: Mt. Pleasant Habitat Event organizer Jimmy Harbour presents the check for the proceeds to Judi Farmer with Habitat (front right), joined by for Humanity - Darby Zettle, Doug Pat Sisk from the winning team, Brady Sisk (holding trophy) and Mayor Paul Meriwether in the front, and Robert Rankin, McGrath, Gabe Ozuna, Carl Davis, Dayna Brownlee, Galand Nuchols and Tom Nuchols.

Austin Mahoney.

Sports Briefs Nelson was an All-Star in 2009, when he averaged 16.7 points and shot 45 percent from 3-point range.

He joins a crowded list at point AUSTIN (AP) - Texas football officials say two players who had guard alongside Devin Harris received a meal from an agent and Raymond Felton. will be eligible to play when the season starts.

A statement issued by the school says Texas reported the meal to the NCAA. According to Texas, the situation was resolved OXNARD, Calif. (AP) - Tony and the players will not be required to miss practice or any Romo paused to add up how long it would take to coddle his games.

Texas opens the season Aug. surgically repaired back on the 30 against at home against North first day of training camp.

The final tally for the 34-yearTexas.

The statement did not identify old Dallas Cowboys quarterback was about four hours. the players involved.

Romo isn’t worried about getting hit. He thinks he can play several more years, even joking Thursday that he’ll still be taking snaps when he’s 45.

But he knows he will have to alter his routine significantly HOUSTON (AP) - Andre after a herniated disk in a seasonJohnson had some issues with the saving win at Washington led to Houston Texans. back surgery that forced him out In the end, they weren’t serious of a loss in a playoffs-or-bust enough to keep the star receiver finale against Philadelphia. off the field.

Romo said he spent about Johnson was all smiles when 2 1/2 hours before the first he reported to camp on time full practice on stretching and Friday. He’s looking to move past other work on his back, and he an offseason where he skipped anticipated at least another hour workouts and a mandatory or so before he went to bed. minicamp after wondering in The extra care probably won’t May whether Houston was “still take that long all the time, but the place for me.” there will be at least a little “I love playing this game of something every day. football,” Johnson said Friday.

“That’s what I have to do and “I’m going to play football and I have no problem doing that,” ... I don’t plan on walking away Romo said. “I love the game and from this.” it’s going to be something that’s He wouldn’t divulge what easy to do to make sure that exactly was said or done to get you’re always in good health.” him to return to the team. But said he’s excited to be back with his teammates and that it’s his plan to finish his career with the Texans.

His teammates shared his enthusiasm and said he received a standing ovation and was greeted with a slow clap when he entered BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Browns a meeting on Friday morning. quarterback Johnny Manziel says he “made some rookie” mistakes during the offseason and vowed to be focused on just football in the future.

Speaking on the eve of Cleveland’s first training camp practice, Manziel briefly DALLAS (AP) - The Dallas addressed his behavior during Mavericks have signed former the offseason when photos of All-Star point guard Jameer him partying around the country were a weekly occurrence.

Nelson as a free agent.

Terms of the deal announced Manziel said he has spoken to Thursday weren’t released, Browns coach Mike Pettine and but it is reportedly a one-year general manager Ray Farmer contract for the team’s salary cap and “we’ve been on the same exception of $2.7 million with a page.” Manziel said he spoke player option for another year at them about a photo of him holding a rolled up $20 bill, but roughly the same amount.

Nelson spent his first 10 he provided no other details.

Manziel said he wants to seasons with Orlando after the Magic acquired his rights from represent the Browns in a Denver, which took him with the “positive manner and a positive 20th overall pick in 2004. The light.”

The former college star enters 32-year-old has career averages his first camp as Cleveland’s of 12.6 points and 5.4 assists.

Orlando waived its career No. 2 quarterback behind Brian Hoyer. leader in assists on June 30.

Track team members bring home medals

Texas players eligible after meal

Romo happy to nurse back

Andre Johnson reports to camp

Mavs sign guard Jameer Nelson

Manziel: “I’ve made mistakes”

TRIBUNE Photo by Brandi Phillips

Shown after competing in a recent track meet in Tyler with their medals are, back row, from left: Basia Mitchell 2nd in 200 meter and long jump, Summer Bratton 1st in 300 meter hurdles, Jakerris Lee 2nd in 100 meter dash and 3rd in 200 meter dash, Jasmine Bratton 2nd in 300 meter hurdles; Front row - Traylor Mitchell 2nd in 4x100 meter relay, Braylen Smith 2nd in 4x100 meter relay, Shuntyce Neal 1st in 800 meter, Jordyn Hurndon 3rd in 50 meter dash and 2nd 4x100 meter relay, Dylan Bennett 1st in 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash and long jump, 2nd in 4x100 meter relay.

In the wet

By BRANDI PHILLIPS Tribune Staff Writer The MP Flight Track Club recently competed in a Tyler track meet and brought home a number of medals.

The club is a tax-exempt non-profit youth summer track organization. a member of the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation and sanctioned by the Mount Pleasant Parks and Recreation Department. Its mission is to develop youth with strong bodies, minds and solid moral character.

The MP Flight Track Club, with the help of many volunteer coaches and support staff, serves the youth of Mount Pleasant and surrounding areas.

Founded in 2013 by Basil Mitchell - a former Texas Christian University scholarship athlete Flight was formed as a vehicle to provide a positive, constructive, and supervised environment for local children ages six to 18 to learn the fundamentals of track and field, while simultaneously fighting the rising childhood obesity epidemic and deterring youth away from high-risk destructive activities.

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The members of MP Splash just completed their 11th summer swim season on July 19 at the East Texas Summer Swim League All Star Swim meet held at LeTourneau University in Longview. Splash consisted of 65 swimmers this summer, and they had four High Point trophy winners at the All Star meet. Cameron Currey placed 2nd overall in the Boy’s 15 and over age group. He placed 1st in 100 yards Individual Medley, 2nd in 50 fly, and 3rd in 50 free. Emily Brown placed 1st in the Girl’s 13/14 age group. She placed 1st in 50 fly, 1st in 50 breast, and 2nd in 50 free.

Ella Cross placed 1st overall in the Girl’s 7/8 age group, placing 1st in 25 fly, 1st in 25 free, and 3rd in 25 backstroke. Ryan Sharp placed 2nd overall in the Boy’s 11/12 age group. He placed 1st in 50 fly, 3rd in 100 Individual Medley, and 4th in 50 free. Mount Pleasant Splash is coached by Annette Brown, Scott Eddy, and Ryan Bartlett

Rangers use record 31st pitcher, beat A’s 4-1 ARLINGTON (AP) - Jerome Williams became the record 31st pitcher for Texas this season, Neftali Feliz was back in a familiar finishing role and the Rangers finally got a home victory in July.

Williams pitched six solid innings in an unlikely start and Feliz got his first save in three seasons for the Rangers in a 4-1 victory over AL West-leading Oakland on Friday night. “ I’m happy to be back in the role, and the more happy I feel because I got a win for the team,” Feliz said through an interpreter after working

around two runners in a scoreless ninth. “I like to have that adrenaline flow through me, because I feel fans pulling for me to finish.”

Feliz, the closer again after Joakim Soria was traded to Detroit earlier this week, got his first regularseason save since 2011. The former All-Star’s last opportunity, before moving to the rotation and then getting hurt and needing Tommy John surgery, was a blown save in Game 6 of the 2011 World Series against St. Louis.

“He got it done. I’m more than certain the more he gets the ball,

the easier it will probably come,” manager Ron Washington said.

“We’ll just keep giving him the ball and see where it goes.”

Elvis Andrus had a triple among his two hits and scored twice for the Rangers, who had lost their seven previous home games in July and were coming off a 2-5 road trip out of the All-Star break.

The Athletics still have the best record in the majors at 63-39, and they have a 22 1-2-game division lead over last-place Texas, which has won only six of its last 33 games.

Williams (2-4) allowed one run

while striking out four without a walk. The 32-year-old righthander was released by Houston earlier this month and signed to a minor league deal with the Rangers two weeks ago. He also pitched previously for San Francisco, the Chicago Cubs, Washington and the division rival Los Angeles Angels.

“I didn’t think I was going to come to Texas because I played for the rival,” Williams said. “I can’t really look at the future right now.

I can only look at the present.”

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Quickest route into NFL draft goes through SEC

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The Southeastern Conference has become the most popular jumpingoff point for underclassmen looking for a head start on NFL careers, creating more spots to fill around the league with preseason camps approaching.

No league has had nearly as many players leaving early to pursue NFL careers over the past eight years, and LSU has had the most of any program two years running.

“We do lead college football in three-and-outs,” Tigers coach Les Miles said.

It’s not a distinction coaches particularly covet - except perhaps to juice the sales pitch to teenage recruits already dreaming of their first NFL paycheck.

It also creates some potential

Rangers

Rock as planned Friday to start in place of Nick Tepesch, who pitched in relief in the Rangers’ 14-inning loss to the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. Tepesch is scheduled to start Saturday night.

The Rangers have used a majorshigh 52 players, three short of the club record. But 31 pitchers broke the previous mark, and they still have reliever Nate Adcock waiting

headaches for those who have sometimes unexpectedly - more job openings leading into August, not that coaches around the country have much sympathy.

LSU has lost 18 underclassmen to the draft over the past two years.

Since the league’s title run began in 2007, the SEC has had nearly as many early departures drafted (109) as the next two leagues combined. The Pacific-12 (57) and Atlantic Coast Conference (54) rank second and third, according to research by STATs, Inc. The 49 first-round selections among underclassmen during that span tops the Pac-12, ACC and Big Ten combined (44).

The exodus can affect the quality of play at certain positions even with a new wave of four- and fivestar recruits coming in annually

around the SEC, which had its seven-year run of producing BCS champions halted by Florida State in January.

Alabama had three junior cornerbacks picked in the first round from 2010-2013, and a position of strength became a weak link last season with several young players thrust into big roles.

“I think we recruit a lot of good players in this league,” said Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, who played 14 freshmen last season. “What it does for me, and what it does for our team, I guess is what I should say, is the players turn over more quickly so you play more players.

“It’s not that those players aren’t good players, but in some cases they might be playing a little bit before they’re ready to play.”

Alabama will have five-star freshmen Tony Brown and Marlon Humphrey vying for playing time at cornerback when camp starts.

The SEC has had 60 underclassmen enter the draft the past two years, counting players who graduated but had eligibility remaining. Not all have been hot commodities.

The latest group had six juniors picked in the first round and nine go undrafted, nearly one-third of the 28 SEC players who declared for the draft.

Former LSU and NFL defensive lineman Marcus Spears said the players leaving creates a big challenge in having enough depth to overcome injuries and other issues, and forces coaches like Miles to plan ahead in recruiting.

“You have to be able to look

out maybe a year or two years in advance and kind of start honing in on those guys that can come in and replace them and play right away,” said Spears, now an analyst for the SEC Network.

“When you lose those guys, it is a huge void, especially those underclassmen that apply for the draft. Having guys in the stable is very important.”

The good news for newcomers: There are plenty of opportunities for playing time, partly because of players not sticking around for senior seasons.

Here are a few: * Texas A&M quarterback Kyle Allen is competing to replace 2012 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel. * LSU tailback Leonard Fournette, considered the nation’s

top-rated prospect, should carve out a role for himself after Jeremy Hill and Alfred Blue both left with eligibility remaining. * Alabama’s Cam Robinson is the apparent front-runner to replace left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio.

Some prospects are weighing their career options long before they arrive on campus.

“I’ve had three (prospects), and these guys are like 16 years old, they’re saying, ‘If I go out and don’t make it, you’re going to put me back on scholarship if I want to come back, right?’” Saban said. “I’m saying this guy just got his driver’s license and he’s got this figured out already. ... But still they’ve really minimized in some cases their chances of being successful, having a career as a football player.”

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for his season debut after coming up from Round Rock on Thursday.

Texas led for good on J.P. Arencibia’s RBI single after Jim Adduci had a leadoff double over center fielder Yoenis Cespedes in the second off Jason Hammel (0-3).

Andrus had a two-out triple in the third past Cespedes and scored on a single by Alex Rios.

Hammel lost his third straight

start since coming from the Chicago Cubs with Jeff Samardzija in the July 5 trade. Hammel allowed four runs (three earned) in 5 2-3 innings.

“The easiest thing here is to start getting down on myself, but I’m not going to do that,” he said. “I did a lot of good things tonight, save for a few hard-hit balls.”

Yoenis Cespedes was back in Oakland’s lineup after missing

Thursday with a sprained right thumb, and started in center field for only the second time this year.

He had an RBI single in the sixth for Oakland’s only run.

Cespedes had an error in the sixth on a wide throw home after Adrian Beltre’s RBI single. Rios and Beltre got an extra base, and Adduci followed with a sacrifice fly.

NOTES: Oakland manager Bob

Melvin successfully challenged to have two safe calls at first base overturned on replay. Arencibia was initially ruled safe on a pickoff throw by Hammel in the fourth.

Andrus was called safe on what would have been an infield single, but wound up the inning-ending out in the seventh. ... Rangers pitching coach Mike Maddux and longtime broadcaster Eric Nadel have hall

passes to miss this weekend’s series.

Nadel, in his 20th season as the lead voice on Rangers radio broadcasts, will receive the 38th Ford C. Frick Award at the annual Hall of Fame awards ceremony Saturday in Cooperstown. Maddux is there for the National Baseball Hall of Fame induction Sunday of his brother Greg, a special assistant for the Rangers.

Lynch missing Petty believes NASCAR as Seahawks should be helping teams camp begins RENTON, Wash. (AP) Marshawn Lynch was absent as expected when the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks began training camp.

Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Friday he was disappointed Lynch was not present. Carroll reiterated the team wants Lynch there and still intends on him being an integral part of their plans for this season.

But the message was clear that Seattle put a plan in place before Lynch was signed to a four-year contract in 2012 and the Seahawks management is not inclined to stray from those plans.

Carroll said he’s remained in

communication with Lynch during the offseason.

Lynch showed up for the mandatory minicamp in June to avoid a hefty fine, but now faces fines of $30,000 for each day of camp he misses.

Lynch In Lynch’s place, Robert Turbin and Christine Michael took most of the reps at running back Friday.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Richard Petty said Friday the newly formed Race Team Alliance was necessary because NASCAR hasn’t done enough to help team owners slash costs.

The RTA was announced earlier this month as an alliance of nine of NASCAR’s top teams.

Rob Kauffman, co-owner of Michael Waltrip Racing and chair of the owners’ group, said the RTA’s immediate aim is to build purchasing power, create travel partners and finding a common insurer.

NASCAR Chairman Brian France this week said the RTA wasn’t necessary and the sanctioning body believes listening

Dallas Cowboys LB McClain is convicted in Alabama DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - A judge on Friday convicted Dallas Cowboys linebacker Rolando McClain of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in his Alabama hometown and imposed an 18-day jail term that could interrupt the player’s bid to restart his career.

Municipal Judge Billy Cook convicted McClain on the misdemeanor counts after a nonjury trial that lasted about three hours. McClain was accused of yelling an obscenity at police trying to arrest him during a disturbance in a crowded city park in 2013.

McClain won’t have to report for his jail sentence until after an appeal is complete in state court.

Cook also ordered McClain to pay $1,572 in fines and court costs. It’s unclear how long an appeal might take.

The judge signed a document stating McClain, 25, was free to leave the state while challenging the conviction.

Defense attorney Harvey Steinberg said McClain would head to Cowboys training camp in Oxnard, Calif., within hours of the trial.

“My attitude is I think I ran into the only person in the entire state of Alabama that would convict Rolando McClain based on this evidence,” said Steinberg.

“Unfortunately, it happened to be the judge.”

The former Alabama Crimson Tide star maintained his innocence and said police arrested the wrong person. He’s been arrested three times in Decatur since 2011.

McClain tried to delay the trial so he could attend the start of NFL training camp this week, but a judge refused.

The Cowboys acquired the rights to McClain from Baltimore on July 1. He was the eighth overall pick by Oakland in 2010 but hasn’t played since 2012.

“to one voice is just a bad idea.”

Petty, the seven-time NASCAR champion and Hall of Fame driver, gave a hearty laugh when asked whether the RTA is a bad idea.

“It’s really kind of a bad idea from the standpoint that NASCAR should be doing what we’re doing,” Petty said Petty, who has put Richard Petty Motorsports in the alliance. “We belong to

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overpay what we are doing now.”

He also insisted the RTA is not trying to pick a fight with NASCAR leadership. Although many have wondered if the team’s ultimate goal is to seize a bigger percentage of next year’s $8.2 million television package, Kauffman, Petty and other owners have said their focus is on working as a group to save money.

“Our main deal is not to run NASCAR,” he said. “Anything we do to tear NASCAR down is cutting our own throats. We’re going to do everything we can to make NASCAR bigger and better.

Because if we don’t, then we’re out of business.”

7-shot lead for Langer at Senior British Open

By TREVOR PEAKE Associated Press Writer

The judge signed a document stating McClain, 25, was free to leave the state while challenging the conviction.

an organization, and NASCAR should be making the best deals they can for their organization. We see them do a lot of that, but they’re not doing it as much as maybe the new crowd wants to see.”

Petty said his two-car organization joined the RTA to explore cost-cutting measures and likened the alliances’ ideas to a farmers’ cooperative.

“We are all independent contractors and we have no voice to the general public,” he said.

“That’s my main objective. Can I save on insurance? Can I save on travel? Can we save on stuff we are doing to the race car? Can we save time at the race tracks? Stuff like that to keep from having to

BRIDGEND, Wales -Bernhard Langer has a seven-stroke cushion to take into the third round of the Senior British Open after shooting a 5-under 66 Friday to add to his opening 65.

The German is on 11-under 131 overall at a sunny Royal Porthcawl with Scotland’s Colin Montgomerie and South African-based Englishman Chris Williams tied for second on 4-under 138.

Montgomerie shot 66 while Williams added a 70 to his opening 68.

Spaniard Pedro Linhart (69) was a further shot back in fourth, while Americans Bob Tway (73) and Tom Watson (66) shared fifth on 2-under 140.

Watson had a faultless round of 66 with three birdies, an eagle at the 18th and no dropped shots.

Langer was beaten in a playoff by Mark Wiebe of the United States in last year’s championship at Royal Birkdale after blowing a two-stroke lead on the final hole when he failed to get out of a greenside bunker.

“It still hurts when I think about it,” Langer said. “If you put me in that situation a hundred times, I think I would win 98 or 99.”

Langer started with a bogey five at the opening hole when he pulled a 4-iron into a bad lie, hit his second over the green and didn’t get up and down.

He recovered with three straight birdies from the fourth, hitting a sand-wedge to six feet, a 3-iron to seven feet and chipped his third to three feet on the par-five sixth and sank it.

Two more birdies came at

Nos. 11 and 12, he saved his par at the 14th with a 15-foot putt, then hit a drive and a 5-iron to 10 feet at the 18th and just missed his eagle attempt.

“I played v e r y aggressive and smart today,” said Langer, who Langer was champion at Carnoustie in 2010. “I missed a couple of opportunities early on but I’m very pleased overall. Playing good golf on a great course is a lot of fun. But you have to be very careful, very smart and hopefully execute properly.”

Montgomerie hit back from dropping strokes at the first two holes to post six birdies in

the next seven, including five on the run from the fifth, for 31 on the first nine holes. He then got two more on the way and just one dropped shot.

Despite the impressive round, he wasn’t hopeful.

“I’ve got a massive mountain to climb to catch Bernhard,” admitted Montgomerie.

Tway, only two behind Langer overnight, got to 5 under with a birdie at the sixth, but then slipped to level par before closing with two birdies.

Fred Couples had to settle for a par 71, while Tom Pernice Jr. came back from an opening 78 to bag eight birdies and drop just one shot for 64 and the best round of the tournament so far.

Wiebe, playing with Langer, made an early exit after shooting 77 for an 11-over 153 -some 22 strokes worse than the man he beat last year.

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War College to probe plagiarism allegations against U.S. senator HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Sen. John Walsh remained steadfast Thursday amid an investigation into whether he plagiarized a research project required for a master’s degree, winning fresh backing from fellow Democrats in Montana and the governor who appointed him to the Senate earlier this year.

The U.S. Army War College said in a statement late Thursday it will examine evidence that Walsh included both conclusions and verbatim passages from the writings of other scholars in his 2007 paper, known as a strategy research project. The college is in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. “The Army War College initiated its own analysis of the paper and determined this morning that there was reasonable cause to refer the case to the US Army War College Academic Review Board,� the statement said.

Walsh, the only senator who served in the Iraq war, is seeking election in a race that top Democratic strategists - prior to the plagiarism revelations - saw as an uphill battle and unlikely to provide one of the seats the party needs to hold onto its majority.

Earlier in the day, Walsh’s campaign spokeswoman, Lauren Passalacqua, insisted her boss was staying in the race against Republican Rep. Steve Daines. He got the backing to do so from the state Democratic Party, whose spokesman, Bryan Watt, said Walsh “took responsibility� for his mistakes and the party looks forward “to standing and fighting with him.�

Gov. Steve Bullock said he had no knowledge of the plagiarism when he appointed the former head of the Montana National Guard and the state’s lieutenant governor to the Senate in February. “Senator Walsh has a long history

of fighting for Montanans, both at home and in combat,� Bullock said. “He deserves respect for his courage on our behalf.�

There is only a short time for Walsh, Bullock and their Democratic colleagues to decide whether the allegations are too toxic for Walsh to survive.

A candidate has until Aug. 11 to withdraw from this year’s John Walsh contest, and the state party has until Aug. 20 to name a replacement candidate, said Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch.

If Walsh decides to drop out after the ballots are certified on Aug. 21, a new candidate can’t be appointed and Walsh’s name will stay on the ballot, she said.

Bullock appointed Walsh in February when Democratic Sen. Max Baucus resigned to become ambassador to China.Bullock spokesman Kevin O’Brien said the governor’s 2012 campaign reviewed Walsh’s public statements, records and spoke with individuals who served with Walsh before asking him to join the Senate. “This didn’t come up,� O’Brien said.

The plagiarism allegation is the second potentially damaging issue raised this year about the senator’s 33-year military career, which has been a cornerstone of his campaign.

It was first questioned in January when records revealed the Army reprimanded him in 2010 for pressuring Guardsmen to join a private association for which he was seeking a leadership role.

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Transcript: Officials were concerned over execution

FLORENCE, Ariz.

(AP) - U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake was attending a ceremony for a judicial colleague when he received an urgent - and unusual - request: Lawyers for a condemned inmate wanted him to stop an execution that didn’t seem to be working. “He has been gasping, snorting, and unable to breathe and not dying,� lawyer Robin C. Konrad told the judge over the phone Wednesday, according to a transcript. “And we’re asking our motion asks for you to issue an emergency stay and order the Department of Corrections to start lifesaving techniques.�

The judge asked his law clerk to quickly locate a phone number for an attorney for the state so he could find out what was happening. They conferenced in Jeffrey A. Zick, who was getting updates from the scene from Arizona’s corrections chief.

What followed provided a window in to the nearly twohour execution of 55-year-old Joseph Rudolph Wood as the defense lawyer pleaded to stop it and the Arizona attorney assured the judge everything was fine. In the middle of the arguments, Zick informed them that Wood had died.

The execution brought new attention to the death penalty debate in the U.S. as opponents said it was proof that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment. On Thursday, the state’s top prison official said Arizona would temporarily put on hold any future executions as it reviewed what happened to Wood.

Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan read a

statement outside his office in which he dismissed the notion that the execution was botched, calling it an “erroneous conclusion� and “pure conjecture.�

He did not take questions f r o m Joseph Wood reporters.

He said IV lines in the inmate’s arms were “perfectly placed� and insisted that Wood felt no pain. He said the Arizona attorney general’s office will not seek any new death warrants while his office completes a review of execution practices ordered by Gov. Jan Brewer.

Wood’s lawyer Dale Baich called it a “horrifically botched execution� that should have taken 10 minutes.

Wood gasped more than 600 times over an hour and a half. During the gasps, his jaw dropped and his chest expanded and contracted.

An Ohio inmate gasped in similar fashion for nearly 30 minutes in January. An Oklahoma inmate died of a heart attack in April, minutes after prison officials halted his execution because the drugs weren’t being administered properly.

States have scrambled in recent years to find alternative drugs because of a shortage rooted in European opposition to capital punishment. Arizona uses a combination of midazolam, a sedative, and hydromorphone, a painkiller.

Anesthesiology experts say they’re not surprised that the combination of drugs took so long to kill Wood. “This doesn’t actually sound like a botched execution. This actually sounds like a typical scenario if you used that drug combination,� said Karen Sibert, an anesthesiologist and associate professor at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Sibert was speaking on behalf of the California Society of Anesthesiologists.

Sibert said midazolam would not completely render Wood incapacitated. If he’d felt pain or been conscious, he would have been able to open his eyes and move, she said.

Sibert says that medical patients who are under general anesthesia are typically connected to a bispectral index, a technology that measures a person’s level of consciousness and sends the information through a monitor.

But for those who are only sedated, monitoring heart rate and blood pressure can suffice to determine whether there is brain activity. “It’s fair to say that those are drugs that would not expeditiously achieve (death),� said Daniel Nyhan, a professor and interim director of the anesthesiology department at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The execution prompted a series of phone calls involving Ryan, Brewer’s office, lawyers and judges as the inmate gasped for more than 90 minutes.

Nearly two hours after he’d been sedated, Wood finally stopped taking those gasps that almost had a pattern to them.

Every five seconds. Then every

six seconds. Now seven.

While the gasps were occurring, Judge Wake was trying to determine if Wood was suffering pain. “I am told that Mr. Wood is effectively brain dead and that this is the type of reaction that one gets if they were taken off of life support. The brain stem is working but there’s no brain activity,� Zick said, according to the transcript.

The judge then asked, “Do you have the leads connected to determine his brain state?�

The lawyer said he didn’t think so. “Well if there are not monitors connected with him, if it’s just a visual observation, that is very concerning as not being adequate,� the judge said.

Moments later, Zick said he received a note indicating the snoring had stopped and Wood’s heart rate was slowing considerably. The judge asked him to call Ryan and find out the latest, and Zick left the call at 3:43 p.m. “And again, I do need to make a decision within a few minutes as to whether to suspend the execution,� the judge said.

Zick got back on the line about four minutes later. “The director indicated that in consultation with the IV team leader, who is a medical doctor, Mr. Wood is apparently comatose; that he cannot change course at this point,� he said.

The judge then weighed the pain question and whether it was too late to do anything. Then Zick interrupted. “I just learned that the IV team leader has confirmed Mr. Wood’s death,� he said.

Fast food workers hike wage demands CHICAGO (AP) - Fast food workers say they’re prepared to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation, starting with a national convention in suburban Chicago where more than 1,000 workers will discuss the future of the effort that has spread to dozens of cities in less than two years.

About 1,300 workers are scheduled to attend sessions Friday and Saturday at an expo center in Villa Park, Illinois, where they’ll be asked to do “whatever it takes� to win $15-anhour wages and a union, said Kendall Fells, organizing director of the national effort and a representative of the Service Employees International Union.

The union has been providing

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Mexican law enforcement agents standing along banks of the Rio Grande River under the black train bridge that leads into Juarez, Mexico.

Deterrence a goal and challenge along the Texas-Mexico border MISSION (AP) - Three heavily armed Texas patrol boats rounded a bend in the Rio Grande on a recent afternoon and came upon two young men paddling an inflatable raft full-speed ahead toward the Mexican shore.

The state troopers and game wardens bobbed helplessly in their boats as the men passed their raft and paddles up the bank to others, and a crew of troopers peeked through the tall reeds on the U.S. side for whatever load had just been deposited.

It was illustrated the limitations U.S. agencies face in deterring smugglers at the Texas border in the face of Gov. Rick Perry’s recent announcement to send as many as 1,000 National Guard troops down.

Combined, the two gunboats from the state’s Department of Public Safety and one from the Parks and Wildlife Department carried 2,400 horsepower and 15 .30-caliber machine guns - indisputably the most advanced craft on the Rio Grande.

But they were foiled Thursday by an 8-foot raft and smugglers’ scouts who track their movements from the moment the patrols hit water. A short time earlier when the patrol boats passed in the opposite direction, two men - likely scouts had stood in the same spot holding a fishing net.

Perry termed the latest guard infusion a “deter and refer� mission on Monday; the troops will deter criminal activity and, if they encounter immigrants who have entered the country illegally, they will refer them to Border Patrol.

Since mid-June, Texas already

has been paying an additional $1.3 million per week to put more troopers and game wardens in South Texas. The National Guard deployment is expected to cost $12 million per month and they’ve been told to plan for a year. The soldiers will join the more than 3,000 Border Patrol agents already in the area, plus an unspecified number of state law enforcement officers who’ve become nearly as ubiquitous in recent weeks.

“We were deployed down here not to deal with the federal immigration part of it,� DPS Lt. Charlie Goble said. “We were deployed down here to deal with the criminal element that comes along with it.�

So if DPS or the guardsmen encounter immigrants - including children from Central America who’ve come in droves - they will call Border Patrol, but they will target the smugglers of drugs and people.

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financial and organizational support to the fast-food protests that began in late 2012 in New York City and have included daylong strikes and a protest outside this year’s McDonald’s Corp. shareholder meeting that resulted in more than 130 arrests. “We want to talk about building leadership, power and doing whatever it takes depending on what city they’re in and what the moment calls for,� said Fells, adding that the ramped-up actions will be “more high profile� and could include everything from civil disobedience to intensified efforts to organize workers. “I personally think we need to get more workers involved and shut these businesses down until they listen to us,� perhaps even by occupying the

restaurants, said Cherri Delisline, a 27-year-old single mother from Charleston, South Carolina, who has worked at McDonald’s for 10 years and makes $7.35 an hour.

Delisline said she and her four girls live with her mother, but the family still has difficulty paying utilities and the mortgage while providing for her children. She said she has not been to a doctor in two years and does not get paid if she stays home sick. “To have a livable wage, it’s going to need to be $15 an hour,� said Delisline. “We make the owners enough money that they have houses and cars and their kids are taken care of. Why don’t (they) make sure I can be able to do the same for my kids and my family?�

Agriculture

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Hay situation good in east, southeast

By ROBERT BURNS Texas AgriLife Extension

COLLEGE STATION – While some parts of Texas have been lucky when it comes to hay production, others will likely have an expensive go at feeding cattle this winter, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert. “We’ve been blessed with rainfall during our spring and even during the mid-summer in East Texas,� said Dr. Vanessa Corriher-Olson, AgriLife Extension forage specialist, Overton. “So hay production in the eastern part of the state has been higher than other areas.�

Though the rest of the state has received some rain, drought conditions persist, which has of course pretty much stymied hay production in much of the state, Corriher-Olson said. “Part of Central Texas, around Waco and along the I-35 corridor, did receive some rainfall, but not as much as we have had in East Texas, and probably did not provide much improvement in hay production,� she said.

West Central Texas also received some good rains in late May and early June, which helped hay production, but the area remains under moderate to severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Though hay production has been good in East Texas, it hasn’t been as good as it might have been because of the frequent rains, CorriherOlson noted. Mid-summer is usually a drier time for East Texas, which is conducive to curing and harvesting hay. But frequent rains have made it a challenge in some areas to get the hay in.

She also said she hasn’t seen much hay moving out of East Texas or out of the state. “Some are rebuilding their stocks, and many have pastures that are still recovering from the drought of 2011 and subsequent droughts,� Corriher-Olson said.

With pastures still in recovery, livestock producers will need hay to make up for lack of grazing.

She also noted that with the chances of a moderately strong

El NiĂąo this fall, the prospects for winter pasture are better than they have been in years. A strong El NiĂąo usually means a wetter late fall and winter for all of the Southwest and Southeast U.S. “This presents us with an excellent chance to reduce costs and preserve hay stocks, not just in East Texas but in Central Texas and other areas too,â€? she said.

Corriher-Olson will be conducting a training, “Winter Pastures for Central and East Texas,� Aug. 12, at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Overton.

For more information on the training, go tohttp://today. agrilife.org/?p=41113 .

More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website athttp://agrilife. tamu.edu/drought/.

Robert Burns is a Texas Agrilife Extension Communication Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Robert Burns Specialist. E-Mail: rd-burns@ Hay, hay and more hay; a common sight in East Texas this year, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension tamu.edu.

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East Texas Regional Forage Conference set August. 28

By ROBERT BURNS Texas AgriLife Extension HENDERSON – As in previous years, the focus of the upcoming East Texas Regional Forage Conference is about how producers can save money – just more so, said Randy Reeves, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agent forHarrison County.

“For example, producers will hear from some of the best in the ďŹ eld on cost of raising their own replacement heifers versus purchasing them,â€? Reeves said.

The conference will be held Aug. 28, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Rusk County Youth Expo Center, 3303 FM 13 West, Henderson.

Registration is $15, with a deadline of Aug. 21. A printable registration form can be downloaded at http://

harrison.agrilife.org/ďŹ les/2014/05/ etrfc1.pdf .

Alternately, participants may mail a check or money order with their name, address and phone number to: Rusk County Extension Office, c/o East Regional Forage Conference, 113 E. Fordall St., Henderson, TX 75652.

Holders of Texas Department of Agriculture private pesticide

applicators licenses will have the opportunity to earn one continuing education unit in integrated pest management, Reeves said.

Conference topics and speakers will include: • Cost of Developing vs.

Purchasing Replacement Females, Stan Bevers, AgriLife Extension economist, Vernon. • Current Clover Research in

Overton and Clover Utilization in Winter Pastures, Dr. Ray Smith, Texas A&M AgriLife Research legume breeder, Overton. • Manure Scoring to Determine Nutritional Needs in Beef Cattle, Dr. Robert Wells, livestock consultant with the Noble Foundation, Ardmore, Oklahoma. • Herbicide Pasture Updates, Shane Colston, certified crop advisor with Winfield

Bits and Pieces for July and August

By DAVID WALL August is the time to divide and give away or replant several plants, with irises being a biggie. Once they get crowded, soil nutrients will become depleted unless you fertilize. Also, center areas will probably start to die.

Some recommend thinning, but the consensus appears to be dig up all of them. Then, after fertilizing and otherwise amending the soil, you can replant some, and move the rest to a new site or give them away. If they are clumped, throw away the center of the clump.

As a rule, crape myrtles don’t need watering or fertilizing. If, however, it’s a really hot, dry summer, a little extra water and fertilizer will ensure a veritable plethora of flowering.

P l e a s e do NOT prune crape myrtles.

Let them grow to natural Dave Wall their height. If you

want shorter ones, buy those that don’t grow tall.

Soil organic matter can hold 30 times its weight in water. For every 1% increase in the top foot of soil, that soil can hold an additional 1/2� of water.

Genetically modified organism (GMO) corn is modified to survive being sprayed with roundup. For those not caring about how GMOs effect their lives, glyphosates (main ingredient in roundup - a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide) are now being found in breast milk. Not only that,

WASHINGTON (AP) - A bank that serves farmers and agribusiness is making $10 billion in capital available to spur private investment in rural America.

The White House was announcing the loan money Thursday as part of a rural conference it is holding this

week. Colorado-based CoBank is part of a network of banks that provides financing to agribusiness and rural areas.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he hopes private investors will follow with additional dollars for the fund, which will be managed by private partners. The Agriculture

Department will help identify needed projects such as rural health care and educational facilities, water and wastewater systems, energy projects, and broadband improvements.

Vilsack has made revitalizing rural America a priority as small towns have been losing population and political clout in

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To make peppers hotter, grow them in 5 gallon or larger pots with good soil and good compost, on concrete, close to a south facing brick wall.

You’ll probably get a lot more peppers than usual which are hotter than usual. Speaking of compost, grow your vegetables in it. They’ll get all their needed nutrients. All you have to do is water.

Farm bank commits $10B in loans for rural projects recent years. He said leveraging private money is a new approach. “USDA and other agencies invest in infrastructure through a variety of federal initiatives, but our resources are finite,� Vilsack said, adding that there was a backlog of projects in many parts of the economy.

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The conference is jointly presented by AgriLife Extension oďŹƒces in Gregg,Harrison, Panola, Rusk and Upshur counties, but producers from other counties and states are welcome to attend, Reeves said.

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‘Lunches of Love’ serves hungry kids in summer

By BRANDI PHILLIPS Staff writer

When Lunches of Love cofounder Susan Sample and thenpartner Virginia Smith (since retired) of First United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon found out that Mount Vernon schoolchildren needed a good meal to eat during their long summer vacation days, they decided to take action. Communities In Schools personnel at MVISD had brought it to their attention in the summer of 2008. During conversation Susan discovered that once summer school had ended and before regular school started again in August there were a lot of kids without food to eat during the day.

Children from ages 5 - 18 who participated in the free or reduced lunch program at school were the ones that needed to be fed. Armed their first year with funds from United Way and donations from the church and community, they began the six-and-a-half week program they titled “Lunches of Love.” The main idea was to feed the children a good meal during the time of day when they needed it most. Breakfast and supper were less of a problem to come by for these children’s families, but lunch was needed to keep the kids going throughout the day.

Terri Ruyle, head cook and kitchen manager for LOL, started volunteering one day a week during the first year of the program. She

has been a part of it since. She is in charge of the massive detail of gathering all the groceries and cooking for the kids and volunteers because they feed them for all their hard work. Every year she starts in March or April planning for the upcoming wave of groceries to be gathered and prepared and to help each team captain find their volunteers to help during the six weeks.

“I just love to cook,” Ruyle said. “It’s my passion and I make sure above anything else that the meals I make are healthy, hot and hearty — for everyone eating with us. We even switch up the menu every week so it never gets dull or boring.”

Ruyle recruits as much community involvement as she can every year by procuring produce and fruit donations from local farmers, Brookshires donated 400 pieces of chicken, Lowes gave 80 pounds of chicken tenders, and when the Catholic Church group comes to help they bring a Latin flavor twist to the menu that helps makes the difference.

“Having the whole community involved was one of the main purposes along with the great food,” she said.

Along with the lunch program, the women were also very focused on getting the children spiritual guidance, which had inspired them to do this from the beginning.

“Feeding them not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally was

a priority.” Susan said. “I knew this was my calling, to help these children in every way I could. This is also why I am still here and won’t walk away” The program is run independent of any government funds (all by private and church donations) so that they can share Bible study with the youngest age group of children and devotionals with the older half. Currently they serve an average of 90 hungry children a day. First Methodist partners with other churches and civic organizations to make everything come together because of the scale of the project.

Lunch begins around 11:45 a.m. and usually ends at 1 p.m.

Every day of the week the kids of all ages get to participate in other activities as well. They do all sorts of different group activities before and after mean time to teach the children about philanthropy and the goodness of those in the

Trinity Baptist hosts substance abuse recovery fellowship

Journey to Recovery is a fellowship of men and women who have been affected either directly or indirectly by the abuse of mood-altering chemicals, alcohol or compulsive behaviors.

They believe that as we look to a loving God for help, and put into practice those principles for living which God has given in His word.

They strongly believe that our “higher power” is Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

They welcome anyone who has a desire to stay clean and sober, anyone who has a desire to rise above the pain and turmoil caused by the addiction of a loved

one, anyone wishing to break the bondage of compulsive behaviors.

They are there to share the experience, strength and hope with one another.

The loving support and genuine caring of fellow members, coupled with daily prayer and the reading of Scripture, prepares you to experience total serenity in Christ, no matter what your outward circumstances might be.

They are dedicated to the principles of anonymity and confidentiality.

They guard anonymity and confidences of other members zealously. Nothing said in these meetings should leave

where the incidents are happening, believe there is a campaign to repress Christianity, which has grown so rapidly as to alarm the atheist Communist government.

It comes at a time when Beijing has been tightening ideological controls, placing more restrictions on journalists, rights lawyers many of whom are Christians - and political activists since President Xi Jinping took office in early 2013.

The incidents speak to the power of symbols, and the emotions they evoke.

“The cross is the glory of us Christians,” said Cai Tingxu, who left his cosmetics shop in Shanghai to protect his hometown church in rural Zhejiang after hearing authorities warned they would tear down the cross. “Jesus was nailed to the cross for us.

My heart ached to learn that the government wants to remove the cross.”

Estimates on the numbers of Christians in China vary widely because the government does not count religious affiliation.

Official 2010 figures put them at 23 million. These are registered

these rooms in any form. Gossip has no place.

Attendance at other 12-Step groups is encouraged. The common welfare must come first.

The leaders are chosen not to govern but to serve. There is only one authority in the group – Jesus Christ, as He expresses His love among us.

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Lunches of Love has served the children of Franklin County since 2008.

what’s known as the Encourager Award. It recognizes community and religious organizations who work together to give back to those

around them in need. Statewide renowned radio personality Susan O’Donnell will be there to present the award.

First Methodist plans VBS First United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon will have their annual Vacation Bible School from 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. beginning Monday, July 28 and running through Thursday, July 31, 2014.

This year’s theme is “The Wilderness” and lunch will be served.

The church is located at 522 HWY 37 South, Mount Vernon, TX 75457 one mile north of I30.

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visit our website at www.fumcmv. org or call 903-537-3616. |---| Dixie Echoes to perform The Texas Gospel Music Hall presents one of America’s favorite Gospel groups in concert. The Dixie Echoes will perform live at 6 pm. on Saturday, August 2, 2014. Special guest group the Douglas Family is also scheduled to perform.

The Texas Gospel Music Hall is located on Highway 19 South in Athens. For more information

contact 903-675-5217 903477-8084 or www.texasgospelmusichall.com |---| Annual Women’s day Sunset Baptist Church Family invites all members, neighboring churches, and friends to come help celebrate their annual Women’s day on Sunday, July 27, 2014 beginning at 3 p.m. Special guest will be Pastor Rev. Moseley of the Solid Rock Baptist Church in Paris.

Everyone is invited.

GENEVA (AP) - Facing claims that Muslim and Sikh players are being discriminated against, basketball’s governing body will review its ban which prevents players wearing headgear for religious reasons.

FIBA said Friday that its policymaking board will review the issue at an Aug. 27 meeting in Sevilla, Spain, ahead of the World Cup. “FIBA’s Central Board, which is ultimately responsible for changes to the Official Basketball Rules, will review these requests and decide how to proceed in the best interest of the sport,” the 214-nation governing body said in a statement.

The United States Olympic Committee and India’s government had this week called for an end to

the ban.

“We take seriously American athletes’ right to compete and believe that reasonable steps can be taken to accommodate athletes of all religious beliefs,” said the USOC, which was urged to intervene by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

India’s sports minister Sarbananda Sonowal responded after two Sikhs on the national team had to remove their turbans before FIBAsanctioned Asia Cup matches in China this month.

The minister said he was “shocked and outraged,” and asked the IOC to send guidelines to Olympic sports federations.

Current FIBA rules prevent

players wearing “headgear, hair accessories and jewelry,” allowing only a 5-centimeter headband to control hair and sweat.

“This measure was established more than 10 years ago for two main reasons: safety on the basketball court and uniformity of equipment within a team,” FIBA said in a statement.

“As a result, the wearing of a turban or a headscarf, just like any other object or accessory to be worn on a player’s head, is not authorized in official FIBA competitions.”

After the FIBA board meets in Sevilla, the body’s 214 member federations hold a two-day congress where the headgear issue can be discussed.

Banning headgear brings spate of religious challenges

members of the state-sanctioned churches, which are closely monitored by the government.

But China also has vast numbers of underground believers who meet in secret.

The Pew Research Center estimated there were 58 million Protestants in China in 2011, along with 9 million Catholics in the year before. Other experts say there could be more than 100 million.

These estimates are up from the widely accepted figure of 1 million Christians in 1950, and may even rival the size of the 85 millionmember Communist Party.

The church’s dramatic growth - and Christians’ loyalty to God above all else - has alarmed authorities, said Yang Fenggang, a Purdue University sociologist and leading expert on religious matters in China.

Although Chinese Christians are generally apolitical, their weekly gatherings and mutual support could prove dangerous if the movement adopts political objectives, he said. The church is “resilient in resisting government pressures and persecutions.”

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Toppled crosses in China spurring wave of defiance WUXI VILLAGE, China - The battle started when a governmenthired crew tore down the metal cross atop the one-room church in this village surrounded by rice paddies last month.

The next day, a church member used his own welding torch to put it back. He was promptly detained and questioned for 10 hours on the charge of operating a welding business without a license.

A week later, the crew came back to remove the cross. Once again, church members put it back up, now tattered and a little shorter.

The church in the eastern village of Wuxi, about 480 kilometers (300 miles) south of Shanghai, has had its water and electricity cut off. Officials have attempted to install surveillance cameras and inquired about several church members’ work and their children’s schooling - a veiled threat that jobs and education might be at risk. But the congregation is not giving up.

“I won’t let them take down the cross even if it means they would shoot me dead,” said Fan Liang’an, 73, whose grandfather helped build the church in 1924.

Across Zhejiang province, which hugs China’s rocky southeastern coast, authorities have toppled - or threatened to topple - crosses at more than 130 churches. In a few cases, the government has even razed sanctuaries.

Authorities say the churches in question had violated building codes, even though they generally won’t specify which ones. They also deny that they are specifically targeting churches, and point to the demolition of other tens of thousands of other buildings, religious and non-religious, that have apparently broken regulations.

But experts and church leaders in Zhejiang, the only province

community who care for others around them.

The Mount Vernon Fire Department, Police Department, Lowes Warehouse, Brookshires grocery store, Franklin County Extension Agent, local farmers, and other religious organizations all help. It takes the work of at least 30 volunteers a day to feed the children, and that’s just to staff the kitchen and church activities.

The children that don’t have a ride to the church are brought in every day by buses from different churches that partner with FUMC. In addition, the group sends home backpacks of food every Friday evening (donated by the Rotary Club) with the kids for them to have food over the weekend. LOL also does a back-toschool program at the beginning of the school year where the children’s families are invited out to eat a good meal, and the kids get haircuts and school supplies.

During the last week of LOL, the Mount Vernon public library makes a donation of all the books the library cannot use any more to the children in the program, so they may have reading material.

Next week, the FUMC kicks off Vacation Bible School along with serving the usual Lunches of Love.

On Tuesday they are expecting some visitors from Tyler to share in all the excitement. Christian Radio station KVNE is coming to recognize the church and all their community partnerships with

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Dallas County official charged with bribery

John Wiley Price in office 27 years DALLAS (AP) - A longtime Dallas County commissioner has been charged with accepting nearly $1 million in bribes in exchange for providing insider information and voting in favor of projects proposed by various companies, federal authorities announced Friday.

John Wiley Price, his chief of staff and two political consultants were in custody after being charged in a 13-count indictment.

Price is a well-known local leader in the Dallas area and has served on the commissioners court for more than 27 years.

Price and the other three defendants each pleaded not guilty during their initial court appearances Friday afternoon. All four were released on personal recognizance bonds.

Billy Ravkind, Price’s attorney, did not

immediately return a phone call seeking comment.

U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña said at a Friday morning news conference that during a decadelong scheme, two political consultants, Kathy Nealy and Christian Campbell, provided Price with $950,000 in money, cars and land.

Authorities allege that in exchange for the bribes, Price voted in favor of lucrative contracts before commissioners court that were proposed by the consultants’ clients.

“Price corruptly solicited and demanded a series of benefits ... to award contracts for Dallas County business,” Saldaña said.

Price is charged with 11 counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery and depravation of honest services by mail fraud. He is

accused of leaking confidential information on contract bids to the clients of Nealy and Campbell in order to help these businesses land the contracts.

Saldaña said that in return, Price was provided “with a stream of benefits” that included more than $447,000 in cash and checks, the use of a new Chevy Avalanche every four years as well as a BMW convertible and nearly $200,000 from property secretly bought for Price.

“These types of actions can diminish the public’s trust and cost taxpayers money and resources,” said Diego Rodriguez, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas office.

Also indicted in the case was Dapheny Fain, Price’s chief of staff.

She is accused of helping Price hide the bribes and other income he allegedly received.

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John Wiley Price was in custody after being charged in a 13-count indictment.

Tom Mills, Fain’s attorney, said for Nealy or Campbell.

Price and Nealy face the most he is still reading through the Nealy is facing nine counts, Fain serious charges in the case, which indictment. is charged with two and Campbell is carry sentences of up to 20 years in Court records did not list attorneys facing one count. prison.

Judge says Texas man should Texas fatality prompts airbag probe be exonerated of rape charge

DALLAS (AP) - A Dallas man who prosecutors say did not commit a 1990 rape for which he served 12 years in prison should be exonerated based on recent DNA testing he did not request, a judge recommended Friday.

The conviction of 57-year-old Michael Phillips should be vacated, Dallas County Criminal District Court Judge Gracie Lewis said. The matter now goes to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals; it was not immediately clear when the court would make a ruling.

Dallas County district attorney Craig Watkins sought the exoneration after DNA testing identified another man as the culprit in the rape of a 16-year-old girl at a motel where both men lived.

Watkins has an ongoing project of reviewing untested rape kits, even without defendants initiating the request. Should the appeals court decide in Phillips’ favor, it would be the 34th exoneration by Watkins’ Conviction Integrity Unit.

“This is a great day for Mr. Phillips

but a terrible day for our justice system,” Watkins said Friday.

Phillips served 12 years in prison after entering a plea deal that he said his attorney advised him to take, fearing a jury would not side with a black man accused in the rape of a white girl who picked him out of a photo line-up.

He was released in 2002 but his failure to register as a sex offender later landed him back in jail for six months. He now lives in a nursing home.

Phillips said during the hearing that he was appreciative.

“I never imagined I would live to see my name cleared,” Phillips, who suffers from sickle cell anemia and uses a wheelchair, said in a news release Thursday. “I always told everyone I was innocent and now people will finally believe me.”

Police and prosecutors have long aided some exonerations without having special conviction-review units, and many still do. But since Watkins started his Conviction Integrity Unit in 2007, several

more prosecutors’ offices across the country have created such staff teams or expert panels to review wrongful-conviction claims.

In the Dallas County unit, DNA preserved by the Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences in sexual assault kits is tested. There was no DNA from Phillips to compare to the profile from the semen in the rape kit, Watkins said in a news release Thursday.

But when the semen was put into the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, another person was identified as the perpetrator.

A district attorney’s office spokeswoman said the statute of limitations has expired on the crime and that the perpetrator who was identified remains free.

The district attorney’s office said his attorney at the time was Mike Morrow. When reached by The Associated Press on Thursday night, Morrow said he could not immediately recall the case from 24 years ago and had no immediate comment.

DETROIT - The U.S. government’s highway safety agency has opened a formal investigation into air bag failures in some Chevrolet Impala full-size cars made by General Motors.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it began the probe after

receiving a petition from Donald Friedman of Xprts LLC, a Santa Barbara, California, company that examines crashes.

Friedman examined an April 2011 car crash in Hidalgo County, Texas, that severely injured an elderly man named Roberto Martinez. His wife Aurora was driving their 2008

Impala when it was hit by an SUV and forced into a concrete highway divider and a fixed barrier in front of the car. The passenger air bags didn’t deploy, and Roberto suffered permanent brain injuries, according to a lawsuit filed by the couple against GM. He died about 10 months later.

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Mount Pleasant ISD pilot tests STEM Camp From MPISD Reports

Thirty kindergarten through 6th grade students invaded the Mount Pleasant Independent School District Administration Building for a week recently for the Elementary STEM pilot camp.

The pilot program gave the students the opportunity to explore the worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and gave the district the opportunity to test various concepts and projects before rolling out STEM Camps in the fall. “We came up with the idea for this pilot camp because we, as a district, recognize that in today’s world careers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering

and Mathematics are some of the most valued,� said Mike Lide, MPISD’s Deputy Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. “We wanted to essentially do a dry run to see what techniques and projects worked with students of various ages before introducing them to a broader audience.�

Students participating in the MPISD Elementary STEM pilot camp engaged in hands-on activities that introduced them to the concepts of energy and circuits, gears and motors, solar energy, push, pull, gravity, electricity, wind power, force, friction, and aerodynamics. Corprew teacher Karen Sharp was the lead teacher for the MPISD camp, assisted by Corprew teachers TracSTEM campers wait for the motors for their solar powered cars to recharge. ey Collier and Candace Watkins.

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James named to Dean’s Honor Roll Oklahoma City University is proud to announce that Daylee James of Mount Pleasant has been named to the spring 2014 Dean’s Honor Roll. Dean’s Honor Roll status is awarded to students who successfully complete a minimum of 12 credit hours and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.

Founded in 1904, Oklahoma City University is a nonprofit, comprehensive, private United Methodist university that is consistently ranked among the best in its category. OCU students pursue academic excellence through a rigorous liberal arts & sciences core curriculum that focuses on their intellectual, moral and spiritual development.

Bo and Cheri Rester of Mount Pleasant are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Jade Chanel Rester of Houston to Payton Lothrop Mitchell of Houston.

The bride elect is a 2009 graduate of Chapel Hill High School and a 2012 graduate of Texas State University in San Marcos with a degree in nutrition.

She is currently employed

by Herman MemorialSouthwest in Houston.

Jade is the granddaughter of Myra Sue Rester and the late Harold Rester and

Dave and Norma Lee Wall and the late Walter Lee all of Mount Pleasant.

The prospective groom is the son of Rebecca and Bradford Mitchell of League City. He is a 2008 graduate of Clear Creek High School and a 2012 graduate of Texas State University in San Marcos with a degree in business management. Payton is currently employed by Southern California Valve in Houston.

The couple will exchange wedding vows at 5 pm on October 4 in a traditional outdoor wedding at the home of her parents.

New Jersey sues over a Florida pizza shop logo TRENTON, N.J. (AP) The New Jersey Turnpike Authority wants a Florida pizza shop to pay a big toll for using a logo similar to the Garden State Parkway’s green and yellow signs.

The agency sued Jersey Boardwalk Pizza Tuesday in federal court over the logo it uses for its two pizza shops and on merchandise sold online.

It said in the suit that the company is trying to trade upon the fame of the Garden State Parkway logo to attract customers and potential franchisees.

JoyAnn Kenny, a lawyer with the Red Bank-based firm of Marks & Klein LLP, which represents the company, defended its use of the logo in a letter to turnpike authority lawyers included in the suit. She wrote that there’s no way anyone would confuse a

highway and a pizza place 1,300 miles away.

“Given the very distinct difference in the goods and services offered by our respective clients (yours being a governmental agency providing highway maintenance and travel related services exclusively in the state of New Jersey - ours being a franchisor of pizza restaurants providing the opportunity to provide delicious pizza and Italian food to patrons of its licensed restaurants), there is no plausible likelihood of confusion,” she wrote.

The turnpike authority sued over two logos, one used by the pizza business and one by a franchising business it owns. Kenny said that logo for the restaurants was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has been used since April 2011.

Arizona band finds wallet in Texas, locates owner PHOENIX (AP) - A band known as The Black Moods apparently pulled off a good deed.

KSAZ-TV reports the Arizona band recently returned a wallet after members did some investigating to find its owner.

According to the band, members found the wallet filled with cash and credit cards at a gas station in Ty-

ler. The Black Moods is on tour throughout Texas this month.

Lead singer Josh Kennedy and his band mates then used social media to find the wallet’s owner and documented their quest in a video.

They recently found the father of the woman who lost her wallet and handed it over in Austin..

Ohio State marching band director fired COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohio State University fired the director of its celebrated marching band on Thursday amid allegations he knew about and ignored “serious cultural issues,” some involving rituals where students were pressured to march in their underwear or participate in sexually themed stunts.

Jonathan Waters had led the band since 2012, and served in lesser capacities for a decade before that. His halftime shows for what’s known to fans as “The Best Damn Band in the Land” were considered revolutionary and

drew millions of viewers on YouTube.

Email and phone messages were left with Waters and the band alumni association seeking comment. The firing was first reported by The Columbus Dispatch.

Ohio State President Michael Drake, on the job just three weeks, issued a video statement on the university website indicating a twomonth investigation uncovered a “sexualized” culture inside the band and determined Waters knew about and failed to stop harassment. A spokesman said the university was

required to promptly perform the probe after a parent complained, under federal Title IX sexual discrimination laws.

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our s t u d e n t s ,” Drake said.

Waters “We expect every member of our community to live up to a common standard of decency and mutual respect

and to adhere to university policies.”

Many of the activities were longstanding traditions that predated Waters’ tenure as director, the report said.

The parent complaint said band members must swear secrecy oaths “about objectionable traditions and customs,” including a late-night march in which band members stripped down to their underwear.

Investigators found band directors, including Waters, and staff had been present at times for the march, which predated Waters’ tenure as director.

Seniors share homes for cost saving NEW YORK (AP) - It’s not exactly “The Golden Girls,” but for Marcia Rosenfeld, it’ll do.

Rosenfeld is among thousands of aging Americans taking part in home-sharing programs around the country that allow seniors to stay in their homes and save money while getting some muchneeded companionship.

“It’s a wonderful arrangement,” said the white-haired Rosenfeld, who when asked her age will only say she’s a senior citizen. “The way the rents are these days, I couldn’t stay here without it.”

She shares her two-bedroom, $1,000-a-month Brooklyn apartment with Carolyn Allen, a 69-year-old widow who has suffered two strokes and no longer wants to live alone.

Agencies that put such seniors together say the need appears to be growing as baby boomers age and struggle to deal with foreclosures, property taxes and rising rents. The typical situation involves an elderly woman, widowed or divorced, who has a house or an apartment with extra room and needs help with the upkeep.

“Our seniors want to remain part of the community they were raised in, where they worked and went to church,” said Jackie Grossman, director of the home-sharing program at Open Communities in the Chicago suburbs. “They don’t want to be just with other seniors. Maybe they love their garden, their tool shed, and they would have to give that up if they move into senior housing.”

At the New York Foundation for Senior Citizens, where applicants have tripled since 2008, the average boarder pays about $700 a month.

The same average holds at the HIP Housing program in San Mateo, California, but it is about $500 at the St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center in Baltimore.

Agencies handle the background checks and other screening and consider various lifestyle criteria - smoking, pets, disposable income - in making matches. When a match is made, the new roommates sign an agreement covering chores, overnight visitors, telephone use, etc.

Not all agencies limit applicants to seniors. In the New York program, only one

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D. Levitt, I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Diary of a Mad Diva

by Joan Rivers, Flash Boys by Michael Lewis and Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.

Brad Thor’s new book, Act of War, tops the fiction list this week. It is followed by Power Play by Catherine Coulter, California by Edan Lepucki, Invisible by James Patterson, The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith, Top Secret Twenty-One

by Janet Evanovich, The Goldfinch

by Donna Tartt, Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon, Landline by Rainbow Rowell, All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, The Girls of August

by Anne Rivers Siddons, The Vacationers by Emma Straub, One Plus One by Jojo Moyes and The High Druid’s Blade by Terry Brooks.

Our teen readers chose the classic Alice in Wonderland for our August 14 meeting. If you are a teen, you are invited to join us. We meet at 4 p.m. The Pulpwood Queens book for August is Margarita Wednesdays.

If you are interested in joining that group, give me a call or drop by the library and I can give you the date and time we meet.

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Happy reading and we’ll see you at the library!

of the two people has to be 60 or older.

The agencies’ services mean people who want a roommate don’t have to post notices in neighborhood weeklies or online and worry about who will respond.

“Craigslist can be very scary, especially for women,” said Connie Skillingstad, president of Golden Girl Homes Inc. in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, which refers women to housing resources including home-sharing.

“They’d rather go through a respectable organization.”

In the past, program directors say, many of the people offering space were willing to take household help - grocery shopping, housecleaning, repair work - in lieu or some or all of the rent.

Recently, though, more people have insisted on dollars rather than services.

“In the last five years, we’ve really seen more people looking for financial aid rather than barter,” said Kirby Dunn, executive director of Homeshare Vermont in Burlington.

Companionship is an important side benefit.

“Independence is great but isolation as we age is a

growing concern, so companionship can be almost lifealtering,” Dunn said. “People are telling us they’re happier, sleeping better, eating better. ... If I could sell you a drug that did that, you’d pay a lot of money.”

Grossman said many longlasting friendships develop, “and for others there’s just mutual respect and that’s fine, too.”

Rosenfeld and Allen, who have been roommates for three years, both said they feel more like business associates than longtime friends like TV’s “Golden Girls,” but they gabbed like sisters and giggled about the apparent highlight of their time together: “the bathtub incident.”

Allen, who gets around with the help of a walker, had slipped in the bathtub and gotten stuck, with one leg wedged awkwardly behind her. She tried and tried but couldn’t get up.

“If I was living alone I might have been there for days,” she said. But Rosenfeld was home, and although she’s too petite to extract Allen from the tub, she was able to call 911 - and provide a towel for Allen to cover herself when rescuers arrived.

In international flight, volatile conflicts abound

By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press Writer DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - In Libya, militias armed with shoulder-launched missiles are battling for control of the country’s main airport. In Africa, the entire Sahel region is awash with weapons that include portable air defense systems leftover from the ouster of Moammar Gadhafi.

Then there’s Syria’s civil war, in which thousands of soldiers have defected and set up new battalions that have shot down military helicopters and jets. And in Iraq, the al-Qaida breakaway group that has taken huge swaths of territory seized weapons depots all along the way.

The world is pockmarked with volatile hot spots stretching from West Africa to Central Asia - a wide arc where commercial flights and airline passengers could potentially be at risk from ground-based weapons. Although counterterrorism and weapons experts say the skies are largely safe, the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 illustrates the dangers inherent in any flight over unstable territory where sophisticated weapons might be available to militants.

On Tuesday, those risks were underscored by the U.S.

Federal Aviation Administration, which told American airlines they were prohibited from flying to the Tel Aviv airport in Israel for at least 24 hours following the explosion of a rocket fired from Hamasruled Gaza in the latest war between Palestinians and the Jewish state.

The FAA has also prohibited flights in Libya, northern Ethiopia, North Korea and the eastern Ukraine Crimea region, and prohibited flights below a certain altitude in Iraq and Somalia.

The Malaysia Airlines jet was destroyed last week by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile as the plane cruised at an altitude of 33,000 feet (10,000 meters) above rebelheld battlefields in eastern Ukraine. All 298 people aboard were killed.

Fifty to 60 countries around the world possess radar-guided high-altitude missile systems like the one that shot down the Boeing 777, according to John Pike, director of military information website GlobalSecurity.org.

A much smaller weapon that poses a more immediate threat are the hundreds of thousands of portable missile systems in circulation called MANPADS, which can strike targets flying as high as 15,000 feet, Pike and others said.

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Fans start lining up as Comic-Con floor opens The Associated Press

SAN DIEGO - Comic-Con is all about bringing fans close to the artists and properties they love - after navigating crowds and waiting in line.

The lineups began as soon as the San Diego Convention Center opened its doors. Fans with four-day passes to the sold-out popculture spectacular gained early admission to the showroom floor Wednesday night, where they were the first to see a 10-foot-tall Transformer, a Lego Spider-Man and a life-sized, road-ready Hot Wheels car inspired by Darth Vader.

Some planned to wait in line overnight for a chance to attend the most popular film and TV presentations, which begin Thursday. But first, they queued up inside the convention center to buy limited-edition toys released just for the festival.

“You buy it here, you sell it on eBay and it pays for your whole trip,” said Chris Schultz, a 26-year-old from Edmonton, Canada. Af-

ter shopping at the Marvel booth, where he bought “Guardians of the Galaxy” merchandise in multiples, he was set to “give up all night in line” to earn a spot inside the 6,500-seat exhibition hall where movie and TV studios present exclusive previews of anticipated properties.

“For Hall H, it’s worth it,” he said.

“Game of Thrones” and “The Walking Dead” are expected to be major draws, as are panels from Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios.

Ten-year conventioneer Sandra Licea, 22, began waiting in line at 7 a.m. Wednesday for a DreamWorks Animation panel Thursday featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.

But even those who don’t make it into Hall H can get a taste of their favorite programs on the showroom floor.

“The Walking Dead” offered a recreation of its Terminus set, inviting fans to creep through a dark tunnel and have their photo taken in the jail-like setting. The A&E show “Bates Motel” also had a photo booth, where fans

could pose with taxidermy animals.

After more than four decades of Comic-Con, the festival has outgrown the San Diego Convention Center and spills out onto neighboring streets and hotels.

A giant Parkour course occupies the normally vacant grassy area just across from the convention center, while the nearby baseball stadium, Petco Park, boasts a Fun House built by Adult Swim.

Wonder Women, Batmen and other costumed characters fill the downtown streets, where businesses have been transformed into temporary showcases for video games, toys and movies.

“You can’t get this stuff anywhere else,” said Lionel Torres, 47, who traveled from North Carolina to buy collectible toys and indulge in community fandom. “People are fighting for a place in line, but there’s camaraderie out there.”

Photo by Denis Poroy/Invision/AP Comic-Con, which attendee Costumed characters walk in front of the convention center before waiting in line for creSara Brushaber described as “the nerd hub of the world,” dentials on preview night at the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention held Wednesday in San Diego. continues through Sunday.

Working late in life, some directors refuse to say cut is a gloriously comic, selfreferential gender play.

Visiting a retired Frank Godard’s film - in which Capra at his Sierra his dog played a starring Nevada hideaway, Clint role - was more experiEastwood was baffled. mental than most 25-year“I always thought: ‘He old’s would dare. It was could be making a film greeted in Cannes by an right now. He’s as lucid as audience member’s cry: could be. Here’s the great “Godard forever!”

Frank Capra not doing it,’” At a time when literary Eastwood recalled of the giants like Philip Roth, 81, famed director, who died and Alice Munro, 83, have in 1991 at 94, three dequit their cades after his last film. “I craft, many always thought, ‘I wonder of cinema’s why that is?’” auteurs Eastwood, who at 84 have stubjust released the musibornly cal “Jersey Boys” and persisted, wrapped shooting on the while at Navy SEAL drama “Amerthe same ican Sniper,” isn’t the only time filmmaker blowing past churning conventional retirement out freEastwood quently age. This Friday, Woody Allen, 78, will, like clockacclaimed, work, release his latest, often vibrant films in a the French Riviera royouth-driven industry. mantic comedy “Magic in “In Hollywood there is the Moonlight.” He’s also that kind of hackneyed, already on to the next one, commercial thinking shooting in Rhode Island where they think, ‘Oh, this this summer. guy is over the hill, this In June came “Venus guy can’t direct that kind in Fur,” from 80-year-old of picture,’” says Allen.

Roman Polanski. And in “But the truth of the matMay, 83-year-old Jean-Luc ter is that in my lifetime, Godard, the perpetual there have been many enfant terrible, premiered directors like John Ford, his 3-D “Goodbye to John Huston, Billy Wilder Language” at the Cannes who were wonderful as Film Festival. they got older and they Both European iconomade sometimes better clasts remain as mischiepictures than they made vous in old age as Allen when they were younger.” and Eastwood have been Certainly, film history is steadfast. Polanski’s film littered with directors who The Asssociated Press

worked well past retirement age. Akira Kurosawa, Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman all worked into their 80s, producing some fine films: Altman’s “Gosford Park,” Kurosawa’s “Dreams,” Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.” Huston, at 81, died months after the release of “The Dead,” his Oscar-nominated adaptation of the James Joyce story. The French film director Alain Resnais was active right up to his passing, at 91, in March.

Such longevity would only be possible for widely admired filmmakers who still have the drive to tell a story and the industry weight to attract financing. Because of tightfisted studios, it’s arguably harder today to get a movie made than ever before, adding to what’s already a hugely taxing profession.

Martin Scorsese, 71, sounded slightly dejected by this part of contemporary moviemaking when releasing “The Wolf of Wall Street,” an explicit romp of a movie few would associate with a director in his 70s. But it also took years to get a green light.

“The problem is, it’s too much,” Scorsese said last year. “It’s almost becoming that I want to do so much, and when you get to this vantage point, there’s not much time left.”

‘Weird Al’ on his weirdly successful week in music

By NICOLE EVATT Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - Attention pop stars: If “Weird Al” Yankovic shows up at your concert or has tracked down your personal email address, you’re likely his next parody conquest.

Such was the case for artists like Pharrell and Iggy Azalea, who are covered by Yankovic in his latest album, “Mandatory Fun.” For his 14th studio effort, released last week, Yankovic had his heart set on Williams’ No. 1 smash “Happy.” When he didn’t hear back from Pharrell’s camp, he decided to go straight to the source.

“I somehow got Pharrell’s home email address - I won’t say how - and I emailed him and asked if I could do the parody,” recalled the 54-yearold comedian. “He couldn’t have been nicer and he said he was honored to have me do the parody.”

Sometimes a face-to-face plea was necessary. Yankovic flew to Denver and waited backstage at Azalea’s concert to get permission to use her summer hit “Fancy.”

“I talked to her as she was literally walking offstage. I introduced myself, ‘Hi. I’m “Weird Al” Yankovic and I would love to do a parody of “Fancy,’” he said. “The next morning I was in the studio recording.”

Yankovic’s efforts paid off: Billboard reported that “Mandatory Fun” will debut at No. 1 - his first - this week with more than 80,000 units sold. That’s

almost double the amount his last album, “Alpocalypse,” sold in its debut week in 2011.

In a recent interview, Yankovic discussed the surprise success of his new album which also features covers of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” and Lorde’s “Royals” - and the accompanying music videoturned-viral hits.

AP: Can you believe the album’s initial success?

Y a n k ovic: This Yankovic has been an amazing week. I can’t even tell you. I have been doing roughly the same thing for many, many years, and this is the best week of my life in terms of like the response from people. It’s just insane and it’s extremely gratifying. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around (it).

AP: You released eight music videos in eight days. Were you inspired by Beyonce, who dropped 17 videos with her surprise album last year?

Yankovic: It irks me this much when people say, ‘Oh you’re doing a Beyonce’ because, you know, three years ago, when my last album came out, I did a video for every single song on the album, released it all at once, and nobody was saying to Beyonce, ‘Oh you’re doing a little “Weird Al” there are you?’ So, you know, I’m sure I wasn’t the first one to

do that, but I did it before Beyonce. I just want to set the record straight.

AP: Unlike other parodies, you’ve never gone the meanspirited route.

Yankovic: I’m a fan like everybody else. When I do my parodies it’s not meant to mock these people. It’s not meant to belittle them or make them look bad. It’s an homage. ...

I don’t think you need to be hurtful to be funny.

AP: Not everyone is as goodnatured as you are, especially on social media. How do you deal with negative feedback?

Yankovic: There’s always going to be trolls and people being negative and, you know, it’s hurtful. I wish I could say that it bounces right off of me, but part of it sticks. But thankfully I’ve got so many other people on Twitter that are extremely positive that it more than balances it out.

AP: Will this be your last album?

Yankovic: I hate to draw lines in the sand and say this is absolutely the last album, but it sure looks that way.

It’s the end of my record deal.

I’ve been under contract since 1982 and I just kind of feel like especially with the kind of music that I do, the album format isn’t the best way to deliver that music. ... I’m going to try to jump on new hits and new trends as soon as I can (with singles) and try to be a little bit more competitive with everybody else in the world on YouTube.

AP: Who’s next on your parody wish list?

FX says overnight ratings becoming meaningless NEW YORK (AP) - It’s a rite nearly as old as television: the morning after a new show premieres, network executives wait impatiently for the Nielsen company’s estimate of how many people watched, and rush to report the first sign of a hit.

Leaders at the FX network are trying something new: They’re no longer talking publicly about how their programs do on opening night, believing those numbers don’t accurately reflect how many people see their shows. Instead, they’re waiting a few days to see how many people catch up via time shifting.

Inside baseball perhaps, but also a vivid illustration of how TV viewing is changing, particularly for the scripted dramas that dominate at FX. Less than a decade ago, the vast majority of people watched a show when a network scheduled it.

FX’s “Sons of Anarchy” averaged 2.6 million viewers a week in 2006, with 2 million people watching live and another 200,000 within 24 hours, Nielsen said. Last year, each episode averaged 7.5 million viewers over a week’s time, although only 3.2 million saw it “live.” The rest watched on DVD, on demand, online or in FX repeats during the week.

Fully two-thirds of “Homeland” viewers on Showtime last year watched later than its first airing. The debut episode of the Fox series “Sleepy Hollow” had 10.1 million people watch live and another 10.1 million on various time shift options.

The early numbers, besides poorly representing a show’s true audience, can blatantly mislead, said FX President John Landgraf. For his network’s “Tyrant,” overnight ratings showed that 13 percent fewer young viewers watched the second episode

as watched the premiere.

But when Nielsen’s numbers for viewing over three full days came in, viewership was actually up 9 percent.

It gets under CBS’ skin when NBC touts “America’s Got Talent” as summer’s most popular network show. That may be true in the overnight numbers, but CBS shows “Under the Dome” and “Extant” surpass it when timeshifted viewing is taken into account, said CBS research chief David Poltrack. Reality shows, sports and news are most commonly watched when they air.

Besides the overnight numbers, Nielsen measures how many people watch a show within three days of its first airing, and within a week. Landgraf said it’s fairer to make judgments on a show after three days. FX bases its advertising sales on how many people watch a show’s commercials within three days.

Landgraf said he hoped other networks follow his lead. He realizes his stance is risky. Even if FX doesn’t report its overnight numbers, other networks know them and can tell the world.

“It gives our competition ... the opportunity to do mischief,” he said. “Are we all going to slit each other’s throats? Are we like rats in a cage, or are we going to recognize the fact that the consumer is changing the way he or she consumes our content?”

Landgraf said he waited to take his stand until after the premiere of “The Strain,” which is one of the biggest initial hits in the network’s history, so people wouldn’t question his motives. “The Strain” did very well in the overnight numbers with 2.99 million and increased to 4.73 million within three days.

Robert Seidman, cofounder of the TV by the

Numbers website, said FX’s move is partly a publicity stunt. Overnight numbers still solidly represent how one program is doing against a competitor. For a cable network like FX, the value in promoting how many people watch a program over time comes when

negotiating with cable or satellite providers over how much money they will pay to carry a network.

Even if Landgraf won’t talk about the overnight numbers, Seidman said people shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking he isn’t paying attention.

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Shark sightings off Cape Cod a boon for tourism

By RODRIQUE NGOWI Associated Press Writer CHATHAM, Mass. - Great white sharks are having an unusual effect on Cape Cod this summer, and many a merchant is going to need a bigger wallet.

The sharks being spotted in growing numbers are stirring curiosity and a buying frenzy for shark-related merchandise.

Shark T-shirts are everywhere, “Jaws” has been playing in local movie theaters and boats are taking more tourists out to see the huge seal population that keeps the sharks coming. Harbormasters have issued warnings but - unlike the sharks in the movies - the great whites generally are not seen as a threat to human swimmers.

Among the entrepreneurs is Justin Labdon, owner of the Cape Cod Beach Chair Company, who started selling “Chatham Whites” T-shirts after customers who were renting paddle boards and kayaks began asking whether it was safe to go to sea.

“I mean, truthfully, we’ve probably grown about 500 percent in terms of the sale of our shark apparel,” he said.

The T-shirts, hoodies, hats, belts, dog collars and other

accessories bear the iconic, torpedo-shaped image of great whites and sell for between $10 and $45.

He said his store brings in thousands of dollars in sales of the shark-themed merchandise.

Tourists peer through coinoperated binoculars in hopes of catching a glimpse of a shark fin from the beaches of Chatham. The posh resort town is on the elbow of the cape that has a large population of gray seals - the massive animals whose blubber is the fuel of choice for great white sharks. Local shops sell jewelry, candy, clothes, stuffed animals and beverages with shark motifs.

A study released last month by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found the number of great white sharks off the Eastern U.S. and Canada is surging after decades of decline. Conservation efforts and the greater availability of prey such as Massachusetts’ seals are credited with the reversal.

Shark sightings have soared from generally fewer than two annually before 2004 to more than 20 in each of the last few years off Cape Cod, where the economy depends heavily on the summer tourism season.

Despite notices urging boat-

ers and swimmers to use caution, the official reaction has been nearly the opposite of the panic depicted in “Jaws,” the 1975 film shot mainly on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard.

“White sharks are this iconic species in society and it draws amazing amounts of attention,” said Gregory Skomal, a senior marine fisheries biologist who also leads the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, who said people are coming in hopes of witnessing the animals in their splendor.

“I have not been approached by anyone who has said to me ‘let’s go kill these sharks.’”

Skomal said sharks have been coming closer to shore to feed on the seals, which he said have been coming on shore in greater numbers because of successful conservation efforts.

Confrontations with people are rare, with only 106 unprovoked white shark attacks - 13 of them fatal - in U.S. waters since 1916, according to data provided by the University of Florida.

Still, officials are wary of the damage that could be done to tourism if one of the predators bites a person. Brochures have been distributed to raise awareness of sharks and safe practices in the event of a sighting.

Black colleges face hard choices on $25M Koch gift

By JESSE WASHINGTON received about $50,000 from the Kochs’ UNCF gift, earAP National Writer marked for students whose parents no longer qualify for America’s black colleges federal PLUS loans. are struggling for funds.

Dillard is giving the The Republican Party is money in struggling to attract black increments voters. of $2,000 to Enter a $25 million gift $5,000 to to the United Negro College candidates Fund from the conservative such as an Koch brothers, which has honor stupitted the needs of black dent whose students against liberals’ insingle sistence that the Kochs are mother lost pursuing a racist political her job due agenda. to health Whether genuine phiCharles Koch issues. The lanthropy, political jujitsu student had or some of both, the gift been planning to sleep on sparked a debate that peaked when Lee Saunders, classmates’ couches because she didn’t have money for president of the powerful room and board, Kimbrough American Federation for said.

State, County and MuniciKimbrough does not agree pal Employees union, sent the UNCF a blistering letter with much of the Kochs’ poending the union’s financial litical actions. But “I’ll still fight for things important to support. the African-American comHistorically black colleges and universities have munity, and I’ll use their educated a huge percentage money to do it,” he said.

David and Charles Koch of black America. Today, inherited an oil business HBCUs are facing unprecedented challenges: decreas- from their engineer father and expanded it into the es in government funding, tougher parent loan eligibil- privately held Koch Industries, which had $115 ity, and the threat of losing even more federal aid based billion in 2013 revenues, on low retention and gradu- according to Forbes. They are reviled by liberals for ation rates.

In this environment, how donating hundreds of milcould the UNCF turn down lions to conservative causes, $25 million - much of it ear- and have been labeled as racists particularly for their marked for direct distribusupport of laws that critics tion to needy students? say make it harder for black “I can take their money people to vote. and use it for good,” said “They are white supremaWalter Kimbrough, presicists. They are flooding our dent of Dillard University. country with money,” the acKimbrough’s historically black university has already tivist and entertainer Harry

Belafonte said last year.

A Koch spokesperson, Melissa Cohlmia, called Belafonte’s remarks “false and reprehensible.” She said the Kochs “have devoted their lives to advancing tolerance and a free society - where every individual is judged on his or her individual merits David Koch and they are free to make decisions about their lives.”

The Kochs have black and white supporters who say their efforts to require voter ID have nothing to do with race, and everything to do with stopping rampant fraud at the polls. Democrats say fraud is minuscule and insignificant, and that the goal of voter ID is to suppress Democratic votes in poor areas, which are disproportionately black. And if the Kochs fund initiatives that unfairly keep black people from voting, Democrats say, that is racist.

As executive director of Color of Change, Rashad Robinson has battled organizations funded by the Kochs such as the American Legislative Exchange Council, which led efforts nationwide to pass voter ID and “stand your ground” laws.

Color of Change says 69 corporations have cut ties with ALEC due to their activism.

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Cape Cod tourism still gets a kick from the classic motion picture “Jaws”.

“You have to make sure people understand,” Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce CEO Wendy Northcross said, “if they go to the beach and they see a family of seals there, that’s probably not the best place to hang out.”

Laurie Moss McCandless of Memphis, Tennessee, has vacationed on Cape Cod every summer since she was a little girl and doesn’t remember hearing about sharks back then. But her son is obsessed with sharks,

she said, and she’s hoping to hear more about them on their vacation in Chatham.

“He loves all his sharks paraphernalia,” McCandless, 39, said as she bought a shark-themed sweatshirt for one of her three children.

Cruise passengers tell horror stories to Senate

By CONNOR RADNOVICH senger safety in the cruise industry.

Associated Press Writer “In spite of the evidence WASHINGTON - Lau- that crimes, fires, mechanirie Dishman told senators cal failures, drownings and through tears Wednesday mishandled medical emerthat she was choked and gencies occur with disturbing raped on a Royal Caribbean regularity on cruise ships, cruise by one of the line’s em- the industry continues to ployees, using her experience deny that it has a problem,” to shed light on the dangers Rockefeller said.

Rockefeller introduced that passengers might face a bill last year to improve on cruises.

“Cruise consumers have protection of passengers on virtually no rights or protec- cruise ships. The hearing tions,” Dishman, a resident Wednesday was the second of Sacramento, California, he has called to raise awaresaid during a Senate Com- ness of the problems and merce Committee hearing how his bill could address in which witnesses called for them. While cruise line offimore passenger protections cials appeared at the earlier on cruise liners. “I know this hearing, no industry representatives were present for first-hand.”

Dishman said she was Wednesday’s session.

Rockefeller repeated hurt and humiliated during the 2006 incident when throughout the hearing that staff members were slow the majority of people who and discourteous in helping take cruises have a good and her. They made her collect safe time, but he added that evidence in trash bags, she even those relatively rare ocsaid, and didn’t take her to currences of passenger peril the infirmary immediately, drive home the necessity of administer anti-retroviral putting more protections medications or give her an- into place.

Philip Gerson, a Miamiother cabin in which to stay during the cruise to Mexico. based civil trial lawyer who Even after an FBI investi- has litigated cruise liner casgation when the ship docked es, said significant improvein the U.S., her rapist was ments in passenger safety never arrested or tried in the are needed.

Gerson said that one of his United States, Dishman said.

The Associated Press gener- clients was a 15-year-old girl ally does not identify victims with Asperger syndrome who of sexual assault unless they was raped by a juvenile and an adult while on a holiday come forward publicly.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. cruise in the Caribbean. Her Va., the committee chair- mother believed that teen man, said Dishman’s experi- activities would be superence and other horror stories vised by cruise staff as sugrecounted at the hearing gested by promotional matepoint to a lack of oversight rial, he said. There were not and accountability for pas- enough security personnel

on the ship, he said, putting the teenager at risk.

“If you think that young women are safe on cruise ships, think again. They’re not,” he said.

Another witness, Kim Ware of Houston, said she was a passenger on the Carnival Triumph in 2013 when it lost power in the Gulf of Mexico after an engine room fire that disabled basic systems including water and sewage. She described how feces in red biohazard bags lined the hallway, a “tent city” appearing on the deck to shield passengers from the sun, and sewage coming up through the shower drains.

Ware said she was scared that fights would break out on the ship as food hording became common and the stench became worse. There was little to no direction from staff, she said.

“It was soon very clear that Carnival Cruise Lines had no plan in place for such a disaster,” she said. “They were essentially winging it.”

Committee members said cruises need to make it clear to passengers before they buy their tickets what rights they have onboard and what rights they are giving up.

They also need to make more clear how safe cruises actually are, they said.

Last August, major cruise liners began voluntarily posting crime data online amid pressure from Congress and victims for more transparency. But the panelists and committee members said it wasn’t enough.

Police custody death tests ‘Broken Windows’ tactic Police custody death tests ‘Broken Windows’ tactic NEW YORK (AP) - Eric Garner, who died in police custody last week after he was put in an apparent chokehold, was suspected of committing the relatively minor crime of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes on the street.

The encounter was an unintended consequence of the New York Police Department’s embrace of the policing tactic called “Broken Windows” - the idea that going after smaller crimes such as public drinking or graffiti helps stop greater disorder such as assault and murder.

But Garner’s death has put Broken Windows under renewed scrutiny, with some lawmakers and experts say-

ing the decades-old theory no longer applies to a city with far less crime, unnecessarily puts nonviolent people at risk and fuels tensions in the city’s minority communities.

“I don’t think it’s a necessary police tactic,” City Councilman Andy King said Tuesday during a news conference about Garner’s death. City Councilwoman Inez Barron added that such enforcement “leads to confrontations like this.”

The tactic caused a stir even before Garner’s death.

An 84-year-old pedestrian on Manhattan’s Upper West Side who tussled with police officers trying to stop him for jaywalking earlier this year ended up with a bloody head injury. He’s since filed a $5 million claim against the city alleging he was assaulted.

But the Garner case has turned up the heat. His arrest was captured on a widely distributed amateur video that appears to show an officer putting the asthmatic, 350-pound father of six in a banned chokehold after he refused to be handcuffed. He can be heard yelling, “I can’t breathe!” as several officers take him down.

Autopsy results are pending on a death that has sparked protests, a criminal probe and a warning by the Rev. Al Sharpton that Garner’s family would explore asking for a federal civil rights investigation. The family held a candlelight vigil Tuesday night on the eve a funeral set for Wednesday night.

The criticism comes at a time when the new administration of Mayor Bill de

Blasio has sought to ease tensions between police and minorities by curtailing the department’s widespread use of street stops of young men - so-called stop and frisk - as a strategy to curb crime. De Blasio’s pick for police commissioner, William Bratton, uses Broken Windows as an alternative tool to help keep crime rates at historic lows.

Bratton vowed on Tuesday to stick with the program, saying the NYPD plans to next target illegal vendors who rent bikes in Central Park.

He credited a similar crackdown on fare beaters during his first tenure as police commissioner in the 1990s with being the “tipping point” for a drastic reduction in overall crime in the subways.

“There’s no change in that focus at all,” Bratton said of

Broken Windows. “That’s a key part of what we’re doing.”

But critics say Broken Windows is broken.

“This is a defining moment

for that administration. ...

There is no human being who can look at that video and say nothing wrong occurred,” City Councilman Jumaane Williams said.

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BIBLEWAY MONTICELLO MISSIONARY BAPMISSIONARY BAPTIST TIST 908 Gibson Ave.; Bertrand Bailey, Min.; Farm Road 127 and SW 15; Ronnie StewS.S. 9:30 a.m., W.S. 11 a.m. ard, Min. BLUNDIS CREEK BAPTIST MOUNT GILMORE BAPTIST FM 127; Lewis Fluellen, Min.; S.S. 9:45 S. Martin Luther King Ave. & School Street; a.m., W.S. 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.; Wed. 7:30 Herbert Jones, Min., SS 9:45, WS 11 am, p.m.

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COOKVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST Marion Moon, Min,; S.S. 10 a.m., W.S. 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

NORTH JEFFERSON CHURCH OF CHRIST 2311 N. Jefferson; S.S. 9 a.m., W.S. 10 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

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MORMON CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS 2810 W. Ferguson Road; Bishop Stephen P. Christian; Sacrament Meeting 10 a.m. & 1:20 p.m.(span); SS 11:15 a.m.; Youth Meeting Wed 7 p.m.

NAZARENE MT. PLEASANT CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Hwy. 271 Bypass & McKellar Dr.; S.S. 9:30 a.m.; M.W. 10:30 a.m.& 6 p.m; Wed 7 p.m.

MONTE ARARAT IGLESIA DEL NAZARENO 215 N. Jefferson Mt. Pleasant, Rev. Saul Garcia, Pastor, W.S. 11:00 a.m.

7:00 pm Bible Study PENTECOSTAL ABUNDANT LIFE UNITED PENTECOSTAL 271 N.; J. P. Burks, Min.; W.S. 10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.; Sat. 7 p.m.

NEW LIFE UPC I-30 Service Rd., Mt. Vernon; W. James Anderson, Jr., Min.; S. 2 p.m.; Wed. 7:30 p.m.

HOLINESS HOUSE OF PRAYER 5 mi. North of FM 1001 in Argo, David Whitfield, Pastor, Sun Svc 10 am, Sun W.S. 5:00 pm, Wed. 7:00 p.m.

FULL GOSPEL PENTECOSTAL Hwy. 67 West; Apostle L.K. McGill, Pastor; S.S. 9:45a.m., W.S. 11 a.m.; Tues.

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PRESBYTERIAN FIRST PRESBYTERIAN Rev. Shane Webb, Min.; S.S. 9:45 a.m., W.S. 11 a.m.; SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 302 Lakewood Dr.;Min.Joe McWilliam Sat. S.S. 9:30 a.m., SatSS 9:30am; Sat WS 11am; Tues 7pm OTHER CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD E. 8th; Gregory Williams, Min.; W.S. 11:15 a.m.

COTTRELL CHAPEL CME 1104 S. Searcy St.,Pastor Shawn Bronson S.S. 10:00 a.m., W.S. 11 a.m.

CALVARY CHAPEL MT. PLEASANT 411 N. Van Buren, Dave Anderson SS 9am WS 11a.m Wed. - 6:30p.m.

LAMB’S FOLD 105 East 16th; Gordon Nelms, Min.; W.S. 10:30 a.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

CHURCH 114 114 W. 3rd, Min Williams Ferguson Wed 6 pm; Sat 11 am HOME Rt. 67, 2 1/2 mi. W. of Omaha; Larry Lakey, Min.; S.S. 10 a.m., W.S. 3 p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m.

LIFE TABERNACLE Pine Street, Naples; Jim Palmer, Min.; W.S. 10 a.m. & 6:30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m..

COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF NAPLES 308 W. Hwy. 67, Naples; David Freeman, Pastor.; S.S. 9:45 a.m., W.S. 10:45 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.; W.S. 7 p.m.

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